"Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians."

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"Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians."

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"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, American Musician

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"Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation."

Doc Severinsen, American Musician

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"The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy."

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"I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived."

Kevin Eubanks, American Musician

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"I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself."

Branford Marsalis, American Musician

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"Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition."

Sonny Rollins, American Musician

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"Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived."

Herb Alpert, American Musician

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"Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them."

Brian McKnight, American Musician

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"I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with."

Sonny Rollins, American Musician

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"You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz."

Oscar Peterson, Canadian Musician

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"My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine."

Father

"Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!"

Being

"Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians."

Jazz

"You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning."

Practice

"My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician."

Parents

"And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality."

Sentimentality