Always Quote by Nellie McKay

I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good.

— Chris Isaak

In high school, we had a really great jazz program that I finally was able to be a part of. They only wanted instrumentalists;…

— Dianne Reeves

Before I even got signed as a teen, I was singing with people like Hoyt Axton and Mickey Gilley. I worked with Jerry Lee…

— Tiffany Darwish

I always wanted to sing a jazz record.

— Jeffrey Osborne

I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up…

— Douglas Booth

I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came…

— Damien Chazelle

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging…

— Elton John

I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with Gram Parsons.…

— Emmylou Harris

Well, I was in a band. I was the singer with a band called the Soul Satisfiers. I sang then quite a bit of…

— Gloria Gaynor

From a small child to right now - I mean, when I was five years old, Red Norville, Tal Farlow, Charles Mingus, Les Paul,…

— Steve Miller

My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had…

— Etta James

In high school I was a jazz nerd, listened to a lot of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk and stuff like that. Maybe in…

— Bill Orcutt