"By its very nature, no one person can be the center of jazz." - Ken Burns
"The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician." - Louis Armstrong
"My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock 'n' roll, and it has an urgency to it." - Neil Young
"I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly." - Warren Zevon
"Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it." - George Foreman