"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."

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"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."

Pat Metheny, American Musician

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Mark White, American Musician

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"Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues."

John Mayall, British Musician

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"The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice."

Lucinda Williams, American Musician

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"Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me."

Justin Guarini, American Musician

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"I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one."

Glenn Miller, American Musician

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"I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet."

Al Jarreau, American Musician

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"I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch."

Count Basie, American Musician

Jazz, Play

"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."

Mose Allison, American Musician

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"I'm not a jazz singer."

Boz Scaggs, American Musician

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"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."

"I was exposed to jazz early on."

"Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues."

"The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice."

"Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me."

"I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one."

"I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet."

"I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch."

"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."

"I'm not a jazz singer."

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"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them."

"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song."

"There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind."

"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them."

"What we play is life."

"The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician."

"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."