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I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

— Lester Bangs

When I worked with my uncle, I loved the fact that jazz music demanded that you use your own unique approach.

— Dianne Reeves

If I had to look at 'Now He Sings'... from outside myself, I see it as a natural part of the growth of the…

— Chick Corea

I've always loved jazz.

— Rita Coolidge

His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone.…

— Gunther Schuller

What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans…

— Damien Chazelle

One of the most obvious aspects of the music to people who know jazz is: How does it feel in the swing? These are…

— Chuck Israels

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

— Herbie Hancock

Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of a century…

— Anonymous

It's always fun to talk about jazz.

— Clint Eastwood

I don't like totally free jazz, unless it's done by somebody like Coltrane, who did bebop and cool jazz, so he was allowed to…

— John Densmore

I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is…

— Kenny G