The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.
Benny Green

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.
Miroslav Vitous

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.
Mose Allison

I'm not a jazz singer.
Boz Scaggs

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
Francoise Sagan

Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.
Merle Haggard

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.
Charlie Haden

The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time.
Billy Higgins

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.
Gerry Mulligan

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.
Andy Summers

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.
Rita Coolidge

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
Mose Allison

I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as a fun project for me though, I'm still not sure about releasing it.
Justin Guarini

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
Ralph Ellison

I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
Carla Bley

I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.
Cathy Freeman

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.
Billy Higgins

In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.
Chuck Mangione

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.
Kevin Eubanks

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.
Branford Marsalis