Affection Quote by David Sanborn

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call…

— Duke Ellington

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

— Steve Lacy

My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I wouldn't know absolutely everything I've been influenced by, but the first jazz I heard was Duke Ellington.

— Melody Gardot

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

— Baz Luhrmann

I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time…

— Clint Eastwood

I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music you can…

— Scotty Moore

My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

— Damien Chazelle

“ORIGIN OF JAZZ It was 1906. People were coming and going as usual along Perdido Street in a poor neighborhood of New Orleans. A…

— Eduardo Galeano

I was raised on jazz. My father, from the time I was born, used to get up early on Saturdays and Sundays and put…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in…

— Steve Lacy

You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in…

— Cab Calloway