I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the…

With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect…

— Serj Tankian

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

— Kenny G

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

— Dizzy Gillespie

I hope I'm doing my part in making jazz and classical music more accessible!

— Laufey

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

— Herbie Hancock

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.

— Alvin Lee

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.

— Samuel L. Jackson

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

— George Gershwin

I play it Kool, gettin to tour just like a jazz player. Your record player ain't nothin without the funky rhyme sayer.

— Kool G Rap

We've played so many places where, if you asked people, 'Do you like jazz?' they would be like, 'Not at all.' But I think…

— Kamasi Washington

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

— Branford Marsalis

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in…

— Tori Amos

My goal is to bring jazz and classical music to my generation through a more accessible road.

— Laufey

Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.

— Jim Coleman

The fact that the jazz and classical worlds seem to struggle with the idea of an artist being both commercially successful and musically interesting…

— Laufey