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

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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."

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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."

Jack Nicholson, American Actor

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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 been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player."

Karen Black, American Actress

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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."

"Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player."

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"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."

"The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn."

"I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young."

"My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent."

"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."

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