I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.
Jonathan Frakes

My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.
Chico Hamilton

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.
Billy Higgins

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.
Joe Simon

I've always loved jazz.
Rita Coolidge

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.
David Amram

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.
Thelonious Monk

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.
Alan Vega

I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.
Al Jarreau

After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.
Gunther Schuller

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
B. B. King

To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.
Robert Fripp

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.
Andy Partridge

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.
Dave Van Ronk

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
Pat Metheny

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.
Alexis Korner

Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.
Bill Laswell

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.
Art Blakey

In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly.
Dave Holland

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
Pat Metheny