Beat Quote by Scatman Crothers

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

— Butch Trucks

Everybody started callin' my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playin' down in New…

— Fats Domino

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz,…

— Jim Sullivan

The way I was singing the songs was jazz

— Van Morrison

The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's…

— Wynton Marsalis

My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were…

— Wallace Shawn

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

— Don Cornelius

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

— Henry Threadgill

We were different. We were a rainbow. The music was a combination of all types of music. You could hear R&B, jazz, rock, even…

— Larry Graham

When I was about seventeen, I had a group called the Young Jazz Giants. We played all originals. When we would finish playing, people…

— Kamasi Washington

The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that…

— Duke Ellington

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

— Norman Granz