A perfect world Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

I wanted to be a jazz musician.

— Ron Cephas Jones

We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would have done OK. I'm…

— George Benson

I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was…

— Mike Stoller

I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.

— Nina Simone

I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

— Robert Wyatt

When I was young, I played the piano and studied classical music and jazz. I wanted to be a concert pianist, and if I'd…

— Christopher Plummer

I always wanted to sing a jazz record.

— Jeffrey Osborne

If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in…

— Wynton Marsalis

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

— John Otto

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by…

— Nat Wolff

I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded. I ran…

— Joe Sample

I was going to say is that I come from a rock background, but also I was super interested in jazz for a long…

— Jherek Bischoff