"I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena."

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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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"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."

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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"My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together."

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"I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning."

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"This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level."

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"I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything."

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"I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice."

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"There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are."

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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 am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena."

"My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together."

"I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning."

"This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level."

"I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything."

"I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice."

"There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are."

"I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility."

"I love all kinds of music."

"My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around."