I wanted to be a jazz musician.

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.

— Hubert Laws

I wasn't into jazz so much - I preferred things raw.

— Jimmy Page

Growing up in Iceland, it was very beautiful, very safe, but quite isolated. There was something about jazz music that had a way of…

— Laufey

I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I…

— Robby Krieger

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

— Pat Metheny

When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew…

— John Tesh

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are…

— Anais Nin

Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues…

— Larry Coryell

I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have…

— Paul Bley

Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.

— Sun Ra

It's bluesy, rocky jazz. I call it soul music, but it's not James Brown soul music. It comes from my soul. It comes from…

— Tinsel Korey

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

— Lee Konitz

My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different…

— Rokia Traore

Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and wild. He's…

— Michael Brecker

My roots are in classical music and jazz, and I want the freedom of being able to improvise. This freedom is possible only in…

— Adnan Sami