Differences Quote by Jelly Roll Morton

We played in bars and other such establishments and anywhere where people would listen. Sometimes they did, and sometimes not. The outfits we wore…

— Phil Harris

Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.

— Dick Smothers

I was not a sports guy in school; I was in the geeky music clique. We shared a spot on the quad with the…

— Michael Penn

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

— Steve Lacy

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New…

— Fats Domino

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

— John Goodman

In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to…

— Sam Hunt

Music and dance is part of everything in New Orleans. So I grew up appreciating it all.

— Dawn Richard

Everybody started callin' my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playin' down in New…

— Fats Domino

I grew up in New York. We were all diversified, as far as music was concerned. I grew up liking just about everything. So…

— Don Alias

When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music…

— Flea

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