About Quote by Ledisi

I've never set out to do anything other than get better at guitar and record and have fun. I feel like the Jazzmaster's just…

— Adam Granduciel

I'm always doubting because I've been told so much that, you're not the right look or you're not the right sound, and, you know,…

— Ledisi

I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead of celebrating what I do, and that I'm different and in my…

— Ledisi

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

— Nat Hentoff

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

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

— Mulgrew Miller

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

— Sonny Rollins

My own feelings about the direction in which jazz should go are that there should be much less stress on technical exhibitionism and much…

— Booker Little

If you asked people, "Do you like jazz?" they would be like, "not at all." But I think that if you're really putting yourself…

— Kamasi Washington

I've got a lot of friends with whom I discuss jazz.

— Julian Barratt

This is especially a time when today's listener is diversified in their musical choices - not unlike the way we were brought up as…

— Marion Meadows

I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at least not…

— Jorma Kaukonen