Blues Quote by Willie Nelson

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time…

— Walter Becker

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

— Dave Van Ronk

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

— Baz Luhrmann

I've always loved jazz.

— Rita Coolidge

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.

— Van Morrison

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that…

— Edgar Winter

I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.

— Amiri Baraka

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

— Roy Harper

Blues and jazz is our American music.

— Leslie Uggams

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

— Melody Gardot

I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum.

— Wynton Marsalis