Able Quote by Sonny Rollins

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

— Sonny Rollins

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

— Kenneth Rexroth

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

— Toots Thielemans

Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.

— Toots Thielemans

Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.

— Mike Zwerin

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

— Tony Wilson

Jazz groups have to make a living any way.

— Lester Bowie

I grew up in the Great Depression, and the jazz artists and Dixieland musicians were at the core of our communications and enjoyment. They…

— Harry Belafonte

I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.

— Tommy Chong

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

— Miles Davis

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above…

— Branford Marsalis

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

— Buddy Guy