I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I’m horrible in ballet. I tried. – Keke Palmer
Kind of the sad thing is that – it’s still true – a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and a lot of hip-hop people just listen to hip-hop, and there’s not a lot of crossover, unfortunately. – Jose James
The blues is the foundation, and it’s got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock ‘n’ roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues. – Luther Allison
I mostly listen to very popular songs. But I’m a huge fan of Stevie Wonder, and I love jazz – Glenn Fredly, Diah Lestari – so 80% jazz, 20% mixed with everything – disco, hip hop. – Joe Taslim
I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century. – Jeff Healey
I went to a Catholic high school, and I was super rebellious. I would dress weird or play jazz. I was definitely pushing against whatever was going on. – Jose James
If I’m not a jazz player all the time, I’ve at least been cued in to what I do by jazz. – Keith Jarrett
Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests. – Jeffrey Wright
When it’s all said and done, jazz with a capital J is where I’m coming from. Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk – that’s what I really studied when I was a teenager and what really fueled my passion. – Jose James
I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke. – Jamie Muir
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into. – Jonathan Frakes
I want to break down the wall of, you know, you have to put on a jacket and tie, and you have to act a certain way, and you have to know how to order the right kind of wine. All these things have suddenly been built up around jazz and the way it’s presented. – Jose James
The radio is playing jazz, and I listen to the sound of the trumpet playing a solo until I become that sound. – Joy Harjo
Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing. – Jan Garbarek
I love most melodic music – classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk. – John Lescroart
My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of. – Kurt Elling
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics. – Ken Burns
I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing. – Maisie Williams