Charlie Quote by John Lewis

Ornette Coleman is a real musician. He takes all of the things he's thinking about in the world - which is a whole universe…

— Patti Smith

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

— Jim Coleman

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

— Gary Lucas

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

— Herbie Hancock

Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time.

— Milt Jackson

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

— Keith Jarrett

Charlie Parker was the greatest individual musician that ever lived. Every instrument in the band tried to copy Charlie Parker, and in the history…

— Gary Giddins

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will…

— Sonny Rollins

I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester…

— Flea

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call…

— Duke Ellington

You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in…

— Cab Calloway

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

— Jan Garbarek