Art Quote by Trombone Shorty

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its…

— Tim Cahill

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

— Esperanza Spalding

I wouldn't know absolutely everything I've been influenced by, but the first jazz I heard was Duke Ellington.

— Melody Gardot

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

— Yo-Yo Ma

Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music that people…

— Al Jarreau

Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and…

— George Gershwin

I love New Orleans. I love jazz. I grew up practicing jazz piano, and that's just been such a cool genre to me. There's…

— Daya

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

— Julie Andrews

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

— John Goodman

What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans…

— Damien Chazelle

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music…

— Donovan Bailey

Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin…

— Wadada Leo Smith