Fourth Quote by Jon Gordon

I take every lesson in the book: singing, acting, guitar, piano, jazz, organ and tap-dancing.

— Barbi Benton

My aunt Ruth Brown was a jazz musician. I got hooked on it at a young age, understanding what John Coltrane was doing playing…

— Rakim

My school music teacher, Al Bennest, introduced me to jazz by playing Louis Armstrong's record of "West End Blues" for me. I found more…

— Bill Crow

I had a great year with Bob Mintzer [at Laguardia School of Arts]. Bob is great. We could have just brought the clarinet or…

— Jon Gordon

My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had…

— Etta James

Whenever my dad wasn't practicing, he was listening to music. He had an amazing jazz collection, and my mom had stuff like Chaka Khan…

— Kamasi Washington

I was trained in jazz, which I love.

— Jesse Andrews

When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more…

— Wynton Marsalis

The biggest lesson to me is that I got the music from somewhere else - the notes, the music my parents listened to, and…

— Too Short

Music was language in our house. It was air.....I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first months and…

— Renee Fleming

I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago,…

— Donald Fagen

Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and…

— Brian McKnight