American Quote by Cecil Taylor

I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.

— Kip Winger

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

— Dexter Gordon

Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't…

— Dave Brubeck

There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give them proper…

— Andrew Bird

I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is that they…

— George Duke

Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.

— Darryl Pinckney

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

— Alexis Korner

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music.

— Horace Silver

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

— Mose Allison

To say that the Afro American created jazz doesn't mean anything bad about Anglo Americans, and I always teach my younger jazz musicians that…

— Wynton Marsalis

If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in…

— Wynton Marsalis

American audiences don't react in the same way as European ones to African music because, I think, Europeans listen to this music through all…

— Rokia Traore