I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.
Rick Moranis

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
John McLaughlin

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.
Rita Coolidge

My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.
Dan Hicks

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

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.
Charlie Hunter

I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.
Chad Smith

I was totally into jazz in my teens.
Andy Summers

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
Wyclef Jean

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.
Rita Coolidge

I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.
Rita Coolidge

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.
Rita Coolidge

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
Anita Diament

The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.
Rita Coolidge

I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.
Lynn Swann

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.
George Gershwin

I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.
Philip Levine

Well, I had started a program which is even longer running than this one in 1967 which was a jazz program called The Best of Jazz and that still goes out on Monday nights. That's been going for 33 years or something.
Humphrey Lyttelton

Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.
Ray Brown