Bebop Quote by Robert Wyatt

I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded. I ran…

— Joe Sample

I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a…

— Eddi Reader

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

— Dave Van Ronk

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

— Andy Summers

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

— Dave Van Ronk

There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties,…

— Sonny Rollins

I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

— Steve Lacy

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.

— Toots Thielemans

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

— Steve Lacy

What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I was exposed to jazz early on.

— Mark White

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time…

— Walter Becker