Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.
Herb Alpert

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.
Bobby McFerrin

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.
Miroslav Vitous

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.
Norman Granz

Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.
Eberhard Weber

I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.
Branford Marsalis

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
John Philip Sousa

It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.
Branford Marsalis

Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.
Ikue Mori

I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.
Chuck Mangione

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

Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.
Branford Marsalis

You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.
Sonny Rollins

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.
Maxim Gorky

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
Louis Armstrong

I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on television. How about a monthly jazz show?
Sonny Rollins

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.
Joseph Jarman

As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.
Jim Coleman

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'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.
Ray Manzarek