Acceptance Quote by Dave Brubeck

We can all be grateful that there is a place like (University of) North Texas! North Texas has been unique among schools in the…

— Peter Erskine

North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered.

— Dave Liebman

A lot of people in the jazz community are looking at how much notoriety we're getting. And we're an inspiration to a lot of…

— Robert Glasper

Now, jazz institutions are more readily available for young people, but for me, the institutions were the bands that I was in. When I…

— Dianne Reeves

[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 went to North Texas State, one of the great jazz schools. When I realized I wasn't going to be Miles Davis, I switched…

— Peter Weller

If jazz education in our colleges were free to all it would provide thousands of good jobs in the music industry which has been…

— Bernie Sanders

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 never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

— Mark Ronson

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try…

— Art Blakey

I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.

— John Otto

Jazz is America's classical music.

— Billy Taylor