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

Pat Metheny, American Musician

Jazz,

"I was exposed to jazz early on."

Mark White, American Musician

Jazz,

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

John Mayall, British Musician

Jazz,

"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

Jazz, Old, Singing, Song

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

Justin Guarini, American Musician

Jazz, Want

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

Glenn Miller, American Musician

Jazz, Want

"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

Jazz, Project, Saying, Songs

"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

Jazz,

"I'm not a jazz singer."

Boz Scaggs, American Musician

Jazz,

Explore more quotes by Rita Coolidge

"There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument."

Key

"I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey."

Jazz

"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."

Jazz

"I say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts."

Heart

"I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge."

Challenge

"Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late."

Time

"If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool."

Anxiety

"When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else."

Music

"You know, I'm pretty much an open book."

Open

"I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life."

Life