Age Quote by Wynton Marsalis

There was a time, from 1935-1946, when teenagers and young adults danced to jazz-orientated bands. When jazz orchestras dominated pop charts and when influential…

— Scott Yanow

In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.

— Walter Becker

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

— Baz Luhrmann

In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where…

— Jelly Roll Morton

There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties,…

— Sonny Rollins

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

— Paul Whiteman

Childhood, all me influences were, say, between the time that I can remember, which would have been about three years old to the time…

— Bill Ward

I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester…

— Flea

In the mid-1930s, a lot of the Big Bands sounded the same.

— Henry Mancini

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

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

— Ken Burns

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

— Andy Summers