Allison Quote by Ray Davies

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

— Robert Quine

In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured…

— Jelly Roll Morton

We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.

— Butch Trucks

I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.

— Jon Gordon

I'm this strange kind of fusion of jazz, pop, and R&B.

— Al Jarreau

In my neighborhood, it was all jazz for a while. Then we grew up into R&B and soul.

— Don Cornelius

I was exposed to jazz early on.

— Mark White

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

— Nina Simone

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived…

— Lady Gaga

Blues and jazz are such a root to music.

— Donovan

Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with…

— Van Morrison