Art Quote by Jon Gordon

Justin [Di Cioccio] was [at Laguardia School of Arts]. He later took over at Manhattan. But I knew Justin through the McDonald's band, which…

— Jon Gordon

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

[Manhattan School Of Music] didn't' have a jazz undergraduate program at the time so I played a semester in the big band. There was…

— Jon Gordon

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

— Norman Granz

I was trained in jazz, which I love.

— Jesse Andrews

I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a…

— Charlie Haden

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

— Mark Ronson

I studied opera for a year at Georgia State University, but I wasn't interested in that meticulous, technical approach to music. So I left…

— Lizz Wright

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

— Roy Harper

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

— Steve Lacy

A lot of people in the jazz community are looking at how much notoriety we're getting. And we're an inspiration to a lot of…

— Robert Glasper

I studied classical and jazz music and went to a music school.

— Hardwell