I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire…

I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.

— Cassandra Wilson

I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been…

— Herbie Hancock

Being a performer and recording artist and playing 'World of Warcraft' - that's a pretty time-intensive combination.

— Lights

When you're a young artist, you're playing for your peers and you never realise that you're going to get older!

— B-Real

A working artist is a playing artist.

— Julia Cameron

What matters is what happens in the soul of an artist when you're playing.

— Mary Gauthier

I was basically 18 when I got offered to join Mister Valentine band and go on tour and leave high school. I was pretty…

— Brian Warren

We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first…

— Alice Nutter

When what you do is play characters, every day, all day, I wasn't really interested in playing a pop star on the weekends. I…

— Brie Larson

In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

— Patrick Stump

I started when I was in sixth grade, playing Pop Warner. I played running back, quarterback, cornerback... all over the place.

— Chris Hogan

I've worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was a kid…

— Brian McKnight

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

— Miles Davis

I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.

— Cassandra Wilson

If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at fifty as…

— Oscar Peterson