Lester young Quote by Lee Konitz

I'll always remember when I first heard Lester [Young]. I'd never heard anyone like him before. He was a stylist with a different sound.…

— Count Basie

Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.

— Jon Pareles

We were all influenced by Lester [Young]. Listen to the records that he made with [Count] Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still…

— Zoot Sims

Louie Bellson represents the epitome of musical talent. His ability to cover the whole musical spectrum from an elite percussionist to a very gifted…

— Oscar Peterson

Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency.

— Paul Rudd

Honestly, it's a blessing. Benny's [Blanco] probably one of the most talented people I know. He's just a very proactive guy when it comes…

— Tory Lanez

A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison] is right…

— Freddie Hubbard

“Even Mozart, perhaps the most gifted composer in history, developed and grew in his art. The music he wrote in his thirties was far…

— Robert Fritz

The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a…

— Duke Ellington

There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.

— Sonny Rollins

A guy like Scott [Robinson] plays the whole history of music on every instrument you've ever heard of. He's just kind of an unparalleled…

— Jon Gordon

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will…

— Sonny Rollins