Band Quote by Charlie Haden

[Manhattan School Of Music] didn't' have a jazz undergraduate program at the time so I played a semester in the big band. There was…

— Jon Gordon

I was in band all the way through high school, and I played in jazz competitions all across Iowa.

— Joey Jordison

I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.

— Kurt Elling

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

— Wyclef Jean

I wanted to be a jazz musician.

— Ron Cephas Jones

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

— Cy Coleman

I suppose technically I could say I'm based in jazz, just because it's the school of thought that I've been encouraging myself to operate…

— Jacob Collier

I don't really have a career as a jazz musician. I don't really have a career as a classical musician. I don't really have…

— Paul Smoker

I studied jazz in college. I studied music history, and I have a degree in music engineering.

— Lari White

In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.

— Ashley McBryde

Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without much information…

— Paul Bley

That's what I tell my students at California Institute of the Arts where I taught for 27 years. I taught them if you strive…

— Charlie Haden