Always Quote by Ted King

I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was…

— Laura Mvula

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

— Andy Summers

I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I loved The…

— Page Hamilton

I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything

— Marian McPartland

My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like it. It went on…

— 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

I grew up listening to a lot of classic jazz, and stuff like The Beatles, and old Motown stuff, and a lot of classical…

— Alison Sudol

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

— Jane Monheit

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

— Herbie Hancock

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by…

— Nat Wolff

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

— Herbie Hancock

The music I like best is kind of frozen in my mind from the Sixties and Seventies. I still listen to the same jazz…

— Don DeLillo