80s Quote by Dustin Hoffman

Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.

— Carlos Santana

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

— Al Stewart

I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we…

— Jimmy Carl Black

Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had paraded on…

— Jack Kerouac

It happened to be, from '73 to '78, the five years that, our most glorious years for bass players. We had Larry Graham, with…

— Marcus Miller

No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he died. Why…

— Paul Weller

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in…

— Bruno Mars

I was a guitar player in a band that had two keyboard players, sometimes two other guitarists, a bass player, and a drummer, four…

— Joe Satriani

Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air…

— Evan Parker

We went in and recorded exactly where we were at that point in time. I think because of the quality of musicianship of the…

— Jimmy Page

A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison] is right…

— Freddie Hubbard

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band…

— Alan Greenspan