Career Quote by Dave Douglas

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

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

— Kurt Elling

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

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 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 feel that I have an obligation to jazz and also to myself to play as good as I can play.

— Sonny Rollins

I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are a very…

— Jamie Cullum

If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician.

— Pete Fountain

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

— Mulgrew Miller

If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

— Gunther Schuller

Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it.

— Fats Waller

Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just…

— Wynton Marsalis