Country Quote by Cornel West

I wanted to be a jazz musician.

— Ron Cephas Jones

I want to be the jazz singer.

— Kurt Elling

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

— Abdullah Ibrahim

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

I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a…

— Esperanza Spalding

Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the instincts of a jazz musician.

— Trombone Shorty

Man, I just feel so fortunate to be a jazz musician at all. I have a hard time thinking of it any other way.…

— Kurt Elling

Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live.

— Ray Brown

In times of change and uncertainty, we need the spirit of jazz more than ever before, to bring people - especially young women and…

— Irina Bokova

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

— Van Morrison

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional…

— Lester Bowie

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

— Ray Brown