About Quote by Kim Gordon

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

— Esperanza Spalding

I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.

— Ted King

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

— Wyclef Jean

I want to expand jazz; I don't want to keep the audience limited. I want to reach people who have never come to a…

— Charlie Haden

If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke…

— Esperanza Spalding

I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.

— Kurt Elling

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

— Mose Allison

There's a jazz influence in my music in general.

— Alexandre Desplat

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

— Kenneth Rexroth

A respectable-sized audience hasn't really been able to follow developments in jazz since the free jazz movement in the '60s. Some of them can't…

— Harvey Pekar

My genre of music is very eclectic. I might play some Latin jazz, or just go into a spontaneous jazz thing. That's the thing…

— Sheila E

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

— Bob Iger