Could Quote by Robert Glasper

My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

— Damien Chazelle

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

Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A…

— Rita Coolidge

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

— Gary Lucas

Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.

— Madeleine Peyroux

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

— Esperanza Spalding

Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

— Cab Calloway

Jazz musicians have always tended to have cult followings, which is pretty wonderful.

— Dianne Reeves

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

— Jane Monheit

People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as you commercialize…

— George Benson

I'm thrilled when I hear the greatest jazz musicians. They continue to search in ways other musicians do not.

— Kurt Elling

That's the thing: There are so many art songs in jazz. It's a much more rich experience for the singer than people think.

— Kurt Elling