I can Quote by Jorma Kaukonen

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

I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.

— Creed Bratton

I feel that I have an obligation to jazz and also to myself to play as good as I can play.

— Sonny Rollins

My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.

— Donald Fagen

Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it.

— Fats Waller

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.

— Wes Montgomery

I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.

— Dickey Betts

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

— Mulgrew Miller

Jazz is what I play for a living.

— Louis Armstrong

I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's likeable, someone…

— Pharoah Sanders

Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition…

— Wynton Marsalis

I'll take any opportunity to kind of put my own spin on a jazz standard.

— Laufey