Be grateful Quote by Peter Erskine

Most of the international acceptance of jazz education can be traced to the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, and the wonderful program they…

— Dave Brubeck

North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered.

— Dave Liebman

A lot of people in the jazz community are looking at how much notoriety we're getting. And we're an inspiration to a lot of…

— Robert Glasper

I went to North Texas State, one of the great jazz schools. When I realized I wasn't going to be Miles Davis, I switched…

— Peter Weller

If jazz education in our colleges were free to all it would provide thousands of good jobs in the music industry which has been…

— Bernie Sanders

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

— Mark Ronson

Now, jazz institutions are more readily available for young people, but for me, the institutions were the bands that I was in. When I…

— Dianne Reeves

[Manhattan School Of Music] didn't' have a jazz undergraduate program at the time so I played a semester in the big band. There was…

— Jon Gordon

We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.

— Michael Nutter

My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.

— Dave Brubeck

I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a…

— Charlie Haden

I suppose technically I could say I'm based in jazz, just because it's the school of thought that I've been encouraging myself to operate…

— Jacob Collier