"I've always loved jazz."

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"Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality."

John Otto, American Musician

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"That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos."

Charlie Hunter, American Musician

Jazz, Sensibility, Want

"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

Jazz, Play, Reason

"You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?"

Charlie Watts, British Musician

Jazz, Play

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

Kevin Eubanks, 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

Jazz, Musicians, Play, Style

"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

Jazz, states, United

"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

Jazz, Play

"I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me."

Travis Barker, American Musician

Jazz, Play, Will

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

Jazz, Journey

"I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me."

People, Ballads, Song

"I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying."

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"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, Body, Force, Jazz

"Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record."

People, Jazz

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

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"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."

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"Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality."

"That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos."

"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."

"You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?"

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me."

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

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

"I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me."

"I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying."

"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."

"Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record."

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

"I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record."

"Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning."

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

"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."