Armstrong Quote by Thomas Gibson

I was living in New York. Sometimes, our gang of musicians would go to Louis Armstrong's home and play records. It was a lesson,…

— Jimmy Scott

When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that. And in…

— Chuck Brown

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

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

— Joan Jett

In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band. I had…

— Nellie McKay

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

— Bryan Ferry

We played, jazz, blues, dixie, and it all came from the church. When I went to church, I would see the sisters and brothers…

— Scatman Crothers

I was growing up at a time when music was growing and changing so fast. I had learned all the big band sounds of…

— Jose Feliciano

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

— Bill Kreutzmann

I grew up in a jazz household. They made me listen to jazz before I could hear my Motown.

— Jeffrey Osborne

It was Elvis that got me interested in music. I've been an Elvis fan since I was a kid.

— Elton John

When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't…

— Illinois Jacquet