Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the…

The jazz guitarist Peter Sprague calls his home recording studio SpragueLand, but sometimes it seems that the moniker better captures the way he has…

— Andrew S. Gilbert

Western classical music had long known syncopation. But no one had felt compelled to snap his fingers to music before American jazz and musical…

— Heather Mac Donald

I did, I was in Europe a lot. I would say, mid 20s to late 30s. Less so in the last ten or twelve…

— Jon Gordon

When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his…

— Miriam Makeba

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came…

— Evan Parker

As for the way we play, we are as much like the Beatles as any American Jazz group is like any other.

— Dave Clark

From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big bands, Benny…

— William J. Clinton

I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams…

— Jamie Muir

I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt…

— Max Roach

I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I mean, American…

— Wagner Moura

And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Childhood, all me influences were, say, between the time that I can remember, which would have been about three years old to the time…

— Bill Ward

Brazilian music has been a part of almost every record I've done, and I'd eventually like to record an entire album of Brazilian music.

— Dianne Reeves

For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music…

— Herbie Mann

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract,…

— Arto Lindsay