College Quote by Lou Reed

As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.

— Jim Coleman

I was part of Jazzercise class. It was an aerobics routine accompanied by loud music, sounding quite awful to me. Jazzercise was popular in…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out of tune,…

— Damien Chazelle

'Rocking With Leroy' used to come on when I would come in from school. It was a very, very big R&B broadcast of the…

— Aretha Franklin

I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so I was…

— Andrew Wyatt

I had the house rhythm section at a club called the Sundown in Hartford. Stan Getz came up and played with us.

— Horace Silver

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

— Steve Lacy

One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player friend…

— Trevor Donovan

I was trained in jazz, which I love.

— Jesse Andrews

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

— Cy Coleman

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

— Neil Diamond