Foundation Quote by Doc Severinsen

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

— Herbie Hancock

The average age of the Jazz audience is increasing rapidly. Rapidly enough to suggest that there is no replacement among young people. Young people…

— Terry Teachout

I suppose I am more comfortable with jazz because I have been playing it that much longer, and also because classical music is a…

— Adnan Sami

The hardest thing about being a young musician on the jazz scene is that there are so many styles of music, jazz and otherwise,…

— Dave Kikoski

I was introduced to classical music by my grandparents - my parents were mostly into folk and jazz. Even as a young man, I…

— Chris Thile

Growing up as a classical musician, you're taught a lot about outreach and about how people aren't being taught music in school. But you…

— Hilary Hahn

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living…

— Mike Figgis

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 one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope…

— Don Ellis

The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the…

— Andre Previn

I think we're an inspiration to young people, to know they can be honest and not run away from influences that are not jazz.…

— Robert Glasper

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

— Julie Andrews