Air Quote by Evan Parker

I was trained in jazz, which I love.

— Jesse Andrews

Yeah, I grew up playing lots of jazz music in school.

— Danny Carey

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an…

— Dave Van Ronk

Now, jazz institutions are more readily available for young people, but for me, the institutions were the bands that I was in. When I…

— Dianne Reeves

When my father saw that I was interested in following such a career he had many reservations. His feeling was that there was no…

— Julian Bream

I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.

— Kurt Elling

You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play…

— Sonny Rollins

I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up…

— Douglas Booth

After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for…

— Gunther Schuller

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came…

— Evan Parker

The musicians I really looked up to as a kid were the ones who could play everything.

— Kamasi Washington

I would argue that among musicians who work in technology today, the level of technological sophistication probably exceeds that of military programs, to be…

— Jaron Lanier