There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.
Dave Van Ronk

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.
Herb Alpert

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.
Ray Manzarek

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.
Jonny Greenwood

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.
Rick Derringer

Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation.
Doc Severinsen

Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.
Jim Coleman

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
Lee Konitz

You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.
John Abercrombie

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
Nina Simone

I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!
Tom Verlaine

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.
Gyorgy Ligeti

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.
Boz Scaggs

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.
Lee Konitz

When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
Carla Bley

Everything we did, we did live - and then Bobby took it home and chopped it up and edited it. Which is pretty much what they did with every jazz record you've ever heard.
Charlie Hunter

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.
John Goodman

I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.
Gary Cherone

It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.
Archie Shepp

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.
Sonny Rollins