Excellence Quote by Dianne Reeves

I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald did. Ella crossed those lines, as did…

— Al Jarreau

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

— Bob Iger

For me, I listened to a lot of female jazz artists. And of course, the Motown and Philly sounds, all that stuff was very…

— Philip Bailey

Anybody who loves jazz has a little bit of snob in them.

— Robert Glasper

I would also like to mention pianists like Michel Petrucciani or Chick Сorea for whom I have great admiration in the jazz field.

— Richard Clayderman

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

— John Scofield

I grew up in the Great Depression, and the jazz artists and Dixieland musicians were at the core of our communications and enjoyment. They…

— Harry Belafonte

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

— Tony Wilson

I'm thrilled when I hear the greatest jazz musicians. They continue to search in ways other musicians do not.

— Kurt Elling

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

— Michael Parkinson

Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

— Cab Calloway

As I became an adult, I listened to a lot of jazz, to the ladies of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae and Nina…

— Lindsay Mendez