Art Quote by Donovan

Beginning in the sixties, but getting strong during the seventies and eighties, everybody was sort of Miles Davis and Chick Corea and the jazz…

— Gilberto Gil

There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of…

— Shawn Colvin

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder…

— Jay-Z

In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.

— Walter Becker

I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester…

— Flea

I'm sick of '60s nostalgia. I've been to clubs in New York where it's just like the Fillmore East. And I thought I hated…

— John Waters

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

— Norah Jones

For three weeks in the 1960s I was nearly a pop star.

— Bernard Cribbins

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time…

— Walter Becker

But I'm really into old music - bluesy, soulful singers, like Etta James, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin. I wouldn't have minded being born…

— Jessica Sanchez

The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.

— Daryl Hall

If you look at pop stars through the ages, we've had camp, glam popstars from the 80s - your George Michaels and what have…

— Olly Alexander