"Jazz is not a what, it is a how. If it were a
what, it would be static, never growing. The how is that the music comes from
the moment, it is spontaneous, it exists in the time it is created. And anyone
who makes music according to this method conveys to me an element that makes
his music jazz." — Jazz pianist-composer Bill Evans (1929-1980), quoted in
Bill Lees, “The Poet: Bill Evans,” in Reading Jazz: A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism From 1919 to Now, edited by Robert Gottlieb
(1996)
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