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

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

— Joanna Newsom

When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz.

— Jose James

I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.

— David B. Coe

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

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

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

I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.

— Norah Jones

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

— Branford Marsalis

An instrumental album is something I've been wanting to do for a long time.

— Dr. Dre

All of our other albums were consecutive year after year: 'No More Mr. Nice Guy,' 'Step in the Arena,' 'Daily Operation,' 'Hard to Earn.'…

— DJ Premier

No, every album is something like a snapshot. It only shows one moment in time. It shows what we feel and think right at…

— Damon Albarn

I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment…

— Rufus Wainwright

I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.

— Mary J. Blige

Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

— Richard Marx