Hip hop Quote by Kamasi Washington

As a lover of both hip-hop and jazz, I feel like much of the latter community still doesn't truly embrace hip-hop as a musical…

— Amanda Seales

I didn't really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my comfort zone.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Hip-hop and jazz have always been intertwined. Even the G-funk thing. You listen to 'The Chronic,' there's flute solos and everything. It's always been…

— Kamasi Washington

Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.

— Talib Kweli

I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Mark Ronson

I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.

— Ahmet Ertegun

I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n' roll - that was music to me. Everything else was boring.

— Lemmy

Whether you like punk, grunge, or early rock and roll, there's probably something in there you've been living with your whole life and you…

— Gregory Porter

I never went to music school.

— Jessica Mauboy

I never left jazz. The relationship between structure and improvisation - that constant conversation and tension - I've always wanted in every genre and…

— Lizz Wright

Jazz is all about being in the moment. Whatever the music is making you feel, jazz gives you the freedom. That's the same genesis…

— Christopher Jackson