Band Quote by Gary Burton

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base…

— Ahmad Jamal

I once took a ride to the beach in L.A., and all along the shore there were all these so-called jazz places. And I…

— Jeff Buckley

Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and many other great jazz musicians objected to their music being called jazz. While the outside world may want to…

— Dave Brubeck

I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is through jazz,…

— Dee Dee Bridgewater

and will I like being called a jazz baby? --You will love it.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I never called myself a jazz singer. I just call myself a vocalist because I love to sing all kinds of things.

— Dianne Reeves

I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a…

— Esperanza Spalding

I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I…

— Artie Shaw

I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing…

— Miles Davis

I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.

— Wadada Leo Smith

I was co-editor of the magazine called The Jazz Review, which was a pioneering magazine because it was the only magazine, then or now,…

— Nat Hentoff

Funk could very easily be called jazz, but you call it funk. Does that really matter? People dig that they associate themselves with certain…

— Kamasi Washington