Art Quote by Cassandra Wilson

I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.

— Cassandra Wilson

You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.

— Casey Abrams

You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will become a jazz moment.

— Kurt Elling

I studied and sang lot of jazz when I was growing up. I think that plays a little bit into some of the things…

— Chris Young

My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of.

— Kurt Elling

I've tried to learn as much as I can about the great jazz singers to understand what makes them important, vital artists, but there…

— Kurt Elling

I know that composers know my voice type and what songs will suit me. I have been able to mould my voice according to…

— Javed Ali

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

— David Baker

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

— Charlie Watts

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

— Norman Granz

My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own voice.

— Lucy Lawless

I'm a jazz performer - I have to improvise with what I'm given.

— Apollo Robbins