Art Quote by Tony Bennett

I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.

— Jon Gordon

When I worked with my uncle, I loved the fact that jazz music demanded that you use your own unique approach.

— Dianne Reeves

Karl Johnson, my first piano player at Milt Trenier's, he just swung really hard and gave me a sense of really belonging to the…

— Kurt Elling

I was trained in jazz, which I love.

— Jesse Andrews

As I became an adult, I listened to a lot of jazz, to the ladies of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae and Nina…

— Lindsay Mendez

I did jazz dance for a few years.

— Sharon Van Etten

I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.

— Flea

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

— Dave Van Ronk

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

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

— John Otto

I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.

— Wadada Leo Smith

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in…

— Steve Lacy