Book Quote by James McBride

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

— Kurt Elling

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

— Dave Douglas

I wanted to be a jazz musician.

— Ron Cephas Jones

I want to stay with the Jazz.

— Rudy Gobert

I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

— Jon Secada

I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians.

— Michael Connelly

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

— Mulgrew Miller

I have a sketch of an idea and I never really talk about: perhaps do another jazz record, but with other elements involved.

— Dianne Reeves

Jazz is what I play for a living.

— Louis Armstrong

I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that.…

— Haruki Murakami

Man, I just feel so fortunate to be a jazz musician at all. I have a hard time thinking of it any other way.…

— Kurt Elling

I got into playing the jazz. I played jazz for a good while. I did the popular stuff first. You got the "Twelfth Street…

— Papa John Creach