Everything Quote by Melody Gardot

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

— Mose Allison

You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in…

— Cab Calloway

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in…

— Steve Lacy

I've grown up with jazz - the Joe Hendersons, Oliver Nelsons, Miles Davis and stuff - but I was also listening to, like, Slipknot,…

— Thundercat

I especially like Duke Ellington jazz, which is a little more... I lived in New York for a while. I lived in Harlem for…

— Charlie Day

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

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

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

— Alexandre Desplat

I've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer!

— Jane Monheit

Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't…

— Dave Brubeck

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

— Baz Luhrmann

For me, I listened to a lot of female jazz artists. And of course, the Motown and Philly sounds, all that stuff was very…

— Philip Bailey

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

— Esperanza Spalding