Artist Quote by Ahmad Jamal

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

— Sonny Rollins

I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing…

— Miles Davis

I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I…

— Artie Shaw

Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and many other great jazz musicians objected to their music being called jazz. While the outside world may want to…

— Dave Brubeck

I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a…

— Esperanza Spalding

You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone on for…

— Rahsaan Roland Kirk

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

— Satyajit Ray

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it…

— Ziggy Marley

The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field

— Gerry Mulligan

I think the recording industry is founded on that principle: to approximate the live experience, to approximate that thing that evaporates as it's happening,…

— Gord Downie

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables…

— Suzanne Fields

Pop was initially ignored as a moneymaker by the recording industry. In the seventies they were still relying on Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett…

— Tony Visconti