Jazz musician Quote by John le Carré

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.

— Oscar Peterson

A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general…

— Steve Lacy

Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.

— Mike Zwerin

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

— Michael Parkinson

Phil Robson is a disturbingly good jazz guitar player!

— Dave Liebman

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

— Abdullah Ibrahim

Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.

— Wynton Marsalis

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

— Miles Davis

Karl Johnson, my first piano player at Milt Trenier's, he just swung really hard and gave me a sense of really belonging to the…

— Kurt Elling

Jazz musicians, in a way, are nerds. We are so in our world.

— Jan Vogler

As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.

— Boz Scaggs

“Jazz, like left-wing politics and 'the common man', was a cause .”

— Martin T. Williams