"The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on."

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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."

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

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

Glenn Miller, American Musician

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"My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players."

Chico Hamilton, American Musician

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"I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer."

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"If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been."

Kevin Eubanks, American Musician

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"I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place."

William Bell, American Musician

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"I listen to jazz and gospel... yeah that's basically what I listen to."

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