Best Quote by Derek Trucks

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

— Bill Wyman

Charlie Christian played amplified guitar with Benny Goodman's quartet. He was the greatest guitar player that ever was. But he never looked up from…

— Chuck Berry

I remember recording with Johnny Sandlin at his place right outside Muscle Shoals and he turned me on to a lot of those musicians…

— Derek Trucks

I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.

— Elmore Leonard

I grew up listening to Ravel, Debussy, Bartok and jazz like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, Charlie Christian and Django Reinhart. It was…

— Allan Holdsworth

My father, Harold, loved music. The radio was on all the time at home, and he had lots of great pop and light classical…

— Richard Carpenter

I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our…

— Aretha Franklin

I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and…

— Donald Byrd

The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of…

— Jerry Leiber

I heard Pete Seeger records when I was a kid. I saw Bob Dylan when I was about 12. The first song I ever…

— Ketch Secor

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to…

— Alvin Lee

When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians,…

— Steve Lacy