My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out…

It's so fantastic for young kids to see a superhero going through the things they go through.

— Tom Holland

Scott Tixier is an exciting young jazz violinist and is making an international name for himself. I heard him in France and was immediately…

— Marcus Miller

When I was about seventeen, I had a group called the Young Jazz Giants. We played all originals. When we would finish playing, people…

— Kamasi Washington

Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes.…

— Walter Becker

In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.

— Walter Becker

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

— Mose Allison

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time…

— Walter Becker

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of…

— Rita Coolidge

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

— Jim Coleman

My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.

— Donald Fagen

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

— Mose Allison

I think that drummers have come a long way, but they haven't forgotten players like Gene Krupa, or the other jazz players.

— Bill Ward

Back in the day in my teens I was listening to Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery a lot; before that I was listening to…

— Larry Carlton

I like musicians who look at the public. You have to bring the music to the largest number. Otherwise, we'll [the Jazz players] stay…

— Dee Dee Bridgewater

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

— Lee Konitz