Billie holiday Quote by Charlie Haden

I wanted to be a jazz musician.

— Ron Cephas Jones

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.

— Rick Derringer

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

— Jan Hammer

What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.

— Simon Helberg

In high school, we had a really great jazz program that I finally was able to be a part of. They only wanted instrumentalists;…

— Dianne Reeves

I always wanted to sing a jazz record.

— Jeffrey Osborne

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 started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

— Herbie Hancock

I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up…

— Douglas Booth

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

— Cy Coleman

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

— Debra Wilson

I was going to say is that I come from a rock background, but also I was super interested in jazz for a long…

— Jherek Bischoff