I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I…

I did an instrumental jazz album. That was my first album.

— Tom Curren

As a little girl, I remember thinking how great it was going to be, to be a musician when I grew up, how I…

— Lari White

It's either, like, 'Your album was the first jazz album I listened to,' or, like, 'My friend took me to this show, and I've…

— Kamasi Washington

I tried to download a jazz album this week and ended up getting some tracks four times, some once, some three times; in total…

— Neil Warnock

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

— Branford Marsalis

Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.

— Common

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as…

— Roberta Flack

There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

— Henri Matisse

In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the…

— Damien Chazelle

I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their fingers at…

— Glenn Miller

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.

— Mahalia Jackson

Kenny G is not real jazz. I don't even think Wynton Marsalis is real jazz. I don't think Harry Connick Jr. is real jazz.…

— John Lurie

I once tried to sing jazz for real. But jazz didn't do it for me. You can't have jazz without a jazz world, which…

— Jeff Buckley

I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick!…

— Count Basie

What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first…

— Norah Jones