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EDDIE PALMIERI I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a re...
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Artie Shaw was way ahead of most clarinetists and most jazz players.
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ETHAN IVERSON People hear traditional jazz and think it's stale, where there are so many ways it can be opened...
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CURTIS CARTER My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat ...
MOSE ALLISON I have a difficult relationship with jazz. My parents really love it, and I went to a school where j...
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CHARLIE HADEN I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played...
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DONALD FAGEN![]()
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JASON FREY I am a big music guy. Hip-hop, R&B, old school, jazz.
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS We're dedicated to supporting mainstream jazz, and we don't veer too far off from that. But we do sp...
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HERBIE HANCOCK![]()
I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.
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This special event at Vibrato brought together many people sharing a common bond - a love of jazz an...
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I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and c...
PAT METHENY Bill Holman is a legend in jazz who has touched virtually every big band, from schools to touring pr...
WAYNE DYESS I knew that I could sing when I was young. I would listen to a lot of jazz; I'm a big jazz fan. ...
ANDRA DAY I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
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JAZZ Time is precious If memories are gorgeous I was religious But i got meanless Do god love me? But he ...
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CHARLES FISHMAN My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually formi...
CHUCK MANGIONE I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.
RITA COOLIDGE We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would ha...
GEORGE BENSON In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's developme...
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GUGU MBATHA-RAW You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when y...
PETE FOUNTAIN Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.
MARC RIBOT![]()
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CLINT EASTWOOD They're not carpenters. There's not a lot of need for jazz trombone players in Shreveport, La.
BEN JAFFE You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will be...
KURT ELLING Alex has gone to jazz camps for years and networked to get to know the players.
LEW DUTROW Jazz and Cuba are inexorably tied together; it's not a branch from a tree. Latin music is part o...
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RITA COOLIDGE The reason I wanted to do this is to keep this music alive, ... That's really important, that the yo...
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DREW HULL![]()
I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie P...
FLEA Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is ja...
AL JARREAU![]()
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
FRANCOISE SAGAN The French-they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time.
BILLY HIGGINS But the smooth-jazz listener is not really serious about music as opposed to the lover of traditiona...
JACK SIMPSON Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and ...
JOSE JAMES![]()
Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance...
DOC SEVERINSEN History is literally drowning. Bourbon Street will always be there, but that's almost exclusively fu...
CHRIS LEE![]()
I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that i...
NAT WOLFF![]()
Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain te...
DAVID SANBORN Jazz is capable of doing much more than depicting the dope fiend and the drunk and the slinky gal. I...
HENRY MANCINI Of course, people are saying, 'Why is it called 'jazz festival?'
CLAUDE NOBS I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really ...
AL JARREAU![]()
Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an...
ANDY RICHTER I was brought up in a house with a lot of appreciation for music, all kinds of music, including jazz...
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
BAZ LUHRMANN I really want to bring ensemble playing back to the forefront - not just for me, but for everyone in...
AARON DIEHL And my answer is very simple. One day somebody stuck a big tattoo on my arm, or on the festival, and...
CLAUDE NOBS It incorporates all these different styles of jazz, from modern to traditional, so the audience feel...
KATE BAKER Actually, I'm not interested in Zen that much, as a philosophy, nor in joining any movements. I don'...
BILL EVANS![]()
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.
DAVID SANBORN![]()
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The g...
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BOB IGER We celebrate our history and the new generation of young emerging jazz artists who dedicate their he...
DEREK E. GORDON All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
MOSE ALLISON![]()
It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.
NILE RODGERS Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, ...
DEXTER GORDON One thing I've got going for me is I'm a baseball player playing a guitar. I'm not a renowned jazz g...
BERNIE WILLIAMS The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism a...
HERBIE HANCOCK For people who are interested in learning about how to make New York City a more humane community fo...
JANE HOFFMAN The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time.
BILLY HIGGINS I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection ...
KURT ELLING We will be having our jazz jam on Fat Tuesday with many special guests, food and drink specials to h...
LEE FRANKEL We grew up listening to a variety of music, such as Gospel/Christian, R&B old/new school, jazz, ...
MICHELLE CARTER![]()
The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoide...
BRANFORD MARSALIS The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. I...
MIKE GORDON People ask me how could I go from country to jazz. It's been a natural convergence for me.
CHARLIE HADEN The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest...
AHMET ERTEGUN![]()
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play b...
NINA SIMONE Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz....
ART BLAKEY I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.
ELLE FANNING My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
DAVID ANTIN If you listen to Donny Hathaway, he had a lot of jazz elements in the way he sang, ... For me, the t...
MARCUS MILLER
BOBBY MCFERRIN I always used to say I'm definitely not a straight-ahead jazz singer, because then there's p...
GRETCHEN PARLATO I do a lot (of business) with local jazz players.
JOHN REYNOLDS There are a lot of young musicians out there performing what they think is Latin jazz but instead is...
EDDIE PALMIERI I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a re...
SONNY ROLLINS
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh... B. B. KING It is also jazz mass. It is in jazz idiom. There are definitely some Latin-based pieces.
JOE NEGRI Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful th...
MADELEINE PEYROUX
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc... B. B. KING
Artie Shaw was way ahead of most clarinetists and most jazz players. BUDDY DEFRANCO
Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz... NAT WOLFF I think the jazz musicians have had less problems than people who feel jazz should be just one thing...
ETHAN IVERSON People hear traditional jazz and think it's stale, where there are so many ways it can be opened...
BRIA SKONBERG People say we're a jazz group. But there's no way I would ever call myself a jazz drummer. The only ...
ALAN EVANS Thompson was involved in the world of jazz. Jazz musicians were interested in his work, and he in th...
CURTIS CARTER My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat ...
MOSE ALLISON I have a difficult relationship with jazz. My parents really love it, and I went to a school where j...
AGNES OBEL
Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more inte... PETE TOWNSHEND
I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot ... STEVE LACY
There is no blood in jazz drumming, and there are no bullies in jazz drumming. NEIL PEART I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming ...
CHARLIE HADEN I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played...
ALEXIS KORNER
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied... MOBY As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.
DONALD FAGEN
I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion. WALTER BECKER Anyone who's a jazz purist doesn't really want to hear 'jazz' attached to our music, and that's some...
JASON FREY I am a big music guy. Hip-hop, R&B, old school, jazz.
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS We're dedicated to supporting mainstream jazz, and we don't veer too far off from that. But we do sp...
CAROL STONE Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz a...
HERBIE HANCOCK
I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician. FLEA
When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High S... FLEA
This special event at Vibrato brought together many people sharing a common bond - a love of jazz an... HERB ALPERT Jazz music is constantly evolving and women have long been instrumental in shaping the landscape of ...
DEREK E. GORDON [Jazz] went from the classics to ragtime to Dixieland to swing to bebop to cool jazz, . . . But it's...
LIONEL HAMPTON
I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and c... PAT METHENY Bill Holman is a legend in jazz who has touched virtually every big band, from schools to touring pr...
WAYNE DYESS I knew that I could sing when I was young. I would listen to a lot of jazz; I'm a big jazz fan. ...
ANDRA DAY I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
DANIEL BOULUD I miss u, how can i tell that? I will never find someone like you,i will never love someone as much ...
JAZZ Time is precious If memories are gorgeous I was religious But i got meanless Do god love me? But he ...
JAZZ We are the only major capital city in the world that doesn't have a jazz festival. It's a shame to m...
CHARLES FISHMAN My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually formi...
CHUCK MANGIONE I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.
RITA COOLIDGE We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would ha...
GEORGE BENSON In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's developme...
MIKE FIGGIS
I didn't really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my co... GUGU MBATHA-RAW You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when y...
PETE FOUNTAIN Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.
MARC RIBOT
In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jaz... CLINT EASTWOOD They're not carpenters. There's not a lot of need for jazz trombone players in Shreveport, La.
BEN JAFFE You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will be...
KURT ELLING Alex has gone to jazz camps for years and networked to get to know the players.
LEW DUTROW Jazz and Cuba are inexorably tied together; it's not a branch from a tree. Latin music is part o...
ARTURO O'FARRILL Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people...
RITA COOLIDGE The reason I wanted to do this is to keep this music alive, ... That's really important, that the yo...
KATE BAKER We still see the dominance of rap, R&B, alternative punk, and pop. But we are definitely seeing grow...
DREW HULL
I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie P... FLEA Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is ja...
AL JARREAU
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance. FRANCOISE SAGAN The French-they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time.
BILLY HIGGINS But the smooth-jazz listener is not really serious about music as opposed to the lover of traditiona...
JACK SIMPSON Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and ...
JOSE JAMES
Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance... DOC SEVERINSEN History is literally drowning. Bourbon Street will always be there, but that's almost exclusively fu...
CHRIS LEE
I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that i... NAT WOLFF
Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain te... DAVID SANBORN Jazz is capable of doing much more than depicting the dope fiend and the drunk and the slinky gal. I...
HENRY MANCINI Of course, people are saying, 'Why is it called 'jazz festival?'
CLAUDE NOBS I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really ...
AL JARREAU
Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an... ANDY RICHTER I was brought up in a house with a lot of appreciation for music, all kinds of music, including jazz...
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
BAZ LUHRMANN I really want to bring ensemble playing back to the forefront - not just for me, but for everyone in...
AARON DIEHL And my answer is very simple. One day somebody stuck a big tattoo on my arm, or on the festival, and...
CLAUDE NOBS It incorporates all these different styles of jazz, from modern to traditional, so the audience feel...
KATE BAKER Actually, I'm not interested in Zen that much, as a philosophy, nor in joining any movements. I don'...
BILL EVANS
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music. DAVID SANBORN
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The g... GEORGE SANTAYANA I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all th...
BOB IGER We celebrate our history and the new generation of young emerging jazz artists who dedicate their he...
DEREK E. GORDON All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
MOSE ALLISON
It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style. NILE RODGERS Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, ...
DEXTER GORDON One thing I've got going for me is I'm a baseball player playing a guitar. I'm not a renowned jazz g...
BERNIE WILLIAMS The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism a...
HERBIE HANCOCK For people who are interested in learning about how to make New York City a more humane community fo...
JANE HOFFMAN The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time.
BILLY HIGGINS I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection ...
KURT ELLING We will be having our jazz jam on Fat Tuesday with many special guests, food and drink specials to h...
LEE FRANKEL We grew up listening to a variety of music, such as Gospel/Christian, R&B old/new school, jazz, ...
MICHELLE CARTER
The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoide... BRANFORD MARSALIS The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. I...
MIKE GORDON People ask me how could I go from country to jazz. It's been a natural convergence for me.
CHARLIE HADEN The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest...
AHMET ERTEGUN
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play b... NINA SIMONE Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz....
ART BLAKEY I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.
ELLE FANNING My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
DAVID ANTIN If you listen to Donny Hathaway, he had a lot of jazz elements in the way he sang, ... For me, the t...
MARCUS MILLER
It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made th... 
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