Accepted Quote by Anthony Davis

What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at least not…

— Jorma Kaukonen

I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.

— Wadada Leo Smith

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

— Dave Van Ronk

I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been…

— Herbie Hancock

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

— Deborah Moggach

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

— Herbie Hancock

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

— Abdullah Ibrahim

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

— Boz Scaggs

I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I wanted to be a jazz musician.

— Ron Cephas Jones

When I got this saxophone, it became a religion. There wasn't TV, there wasn't much money, and there was just a real dedication.... I…

— Stan Getz