It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in…

Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition…

— Gerry Mulligan

When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music…

— Flea

Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake.

— Dylan Moran

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The church we grew up playing at was not one of those churches known for its music, but it was just this all-around energy…

— Thundercat

I've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then I actually…

— Miles Teller

In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.

— Ashley McBryde

[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little like Groucho…

— Peggy Guggenheim

The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.

— Bix Beiderbecke

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

— Tod Machover

I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as…

— Tony Williams

I was classically trained. But more than just the fact that I play violin, there's a lot of classical elements in the way I…

— Lindsey Stirling

I suppose I was affected by raw sounds and timbres more than a lot of other composers. Had I been involved with orchestral composing,…

— Wendy Carlos

One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done…

— John Kinsella

I feel at home in an orchestral score.

— Placido Domingo