I’m a great believer that actors are very similar to session musicians. You wouldn’t ask a session musician, ‘How do you play jazz,’ and then, ‘How do you play classical?’ They just do it, because if they don’t do it, they don’t eat. – Eddie Marsan
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music. – David Sanborn
I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour. – Dave Mustaine
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation. – David Antin
I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program – if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band. – Damien Chazelle
I’ve often felt I’ve been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer. – Eddi Reader
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with. – Duke Ellington
I don’t think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it. – Norman Granz
I’ve often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I’ve always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist. – Cassandra Wilson
I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that’s where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school. – Chad Smith
I have specific playlists for arrivals in different cities. Tokyo skews new wave, Paris more jazz, and New York is Top 40. – Chris Benz
Even though the music I make gathers influences from all over the place, I feel that the core of what I do comes from the jazz tradition. In terms of improvisation, interaction, feel and overall concept, Jazz is my main source of information and inspiration. – Miguel Zenon
The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails. – Federico Garcia Lorca
I believe in dressing for the occasion. There’s a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a time for the full-dress jazz. – Ginger Rogers
As time passed on, got to hear some players who were straight up funky, not just jazz. Nat Adderley, for instance – he’s a funky trumpet player, so he was my man. – Cynthia Robinson
I’m not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and blues. – Dinah Shore
I’m the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social. – Miles Teller
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument. – Miroslav Vitous
I’m concerned with trend. I don’t know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now. – Norman Granz
I think ‘Horace Silver’ was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along with most players of my generation, I have a real affection for the music of ‘Horace Silver.’ – David Sanborn
If you don’t already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it. – Esperanza Spalding