Beach Quote by Jeff Buckley

My dad's also a musician, so jazz was always around the house. When I was 11, I developed an interest in it, and he…

— Kamasi Washington

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

— Andy Summers

I've grown up with jazz - the Joe Hendersons, Oliver Nelsons, Miles Davis and stuff - but I was also listening to, like, Slipknot,…

— Thundercat

When I first started, it was the real basic stuff that was being played on the radio, so I was into Zeppelin, and Sabbath,…

— John Petrucci

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

— Danny Carey

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

— John Goodman

I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself…

— Paula Cole

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

— Debra Wilson

I was very lucky, because when I was at school, I had a great music teacher who would just take out these free-jazz records…

— Alasdair MacLean

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

— Cy Coleman

The jazz records come out a lot. You find that with many musicians - we don't listen to our own music for relaxation.

— Simon Rattle

As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.

— Jim Coleman