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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

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

It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and…

— Archie Shepp

A lot of young people want to become jazz singers, but there are not more jam sessions like there used to be. I just…

— Dianne Reeves

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

— Andy Summers

There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.

— Wynton Marsalis

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

— Kamasi Washington

I think when you look back at the different eras in jazz, what leads from one to another is never a melodic revolution, but…

— Stefon Harris

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

— Yo-Yo Ma

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz music is the power of now.

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

— Miles Davis