By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

Duke Ellington

I'm the only guy in the jazz business who made it without any talent!

Bob Crosby

They're not carpenters. There's not a lot of need for jazz trombone players in Shreveport, La.

Ben Jaffe

I think because it deals with jazz, and urban issues affecting Kansas City.

David Rinck

We are looking forward to creating a forum where fans come not just for good jazz, but also to discover new prolific acts deserving a break.

Rashid Lombard

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.

Donald Fagen

Jazz really doesn't have any boundaries.

Stephen Perkins

Jazz may well be considered America's most treasured and most influential export, ... From its earliest days until now it has continued to grow creatively -- yet the people who have given us this art form deserve far greater recognition.

Dana Gioia

We're getting there. We're a very highly regarded jazz festival, still very much dedicated to mainstream jazz. Audiences appreciate that we haven't gone too far off the mission.

Carol Stone

The big tall buildings, the jazz, the traffic, all of it is communicated through the music. It's incredible. You feel like you are there.

Bob Schaer

City Parks has the authority to extend the hours for special events, such as jazz concerts, flea markets etc.

Jenny Moodley

That certainly doesn't mean it's not significant. How much jazz gets played on the radio?

Anthony Decurtis

It's not really jazz. This is scarier. That's why I want to do it.

Steve Willis

My music is jazz.

Yusef Lateef

New Orleans is where jazz was born, and jazz is my passion.

Jeremy Davenport

I do a lot (of business) with local jazz players.

John Reynolds

This is my favorite combo of musicians. It's one of the finest jazz groups out there. I'm just proud to be in it.

Chris Botti

He doesn't have a lot of those annoying affectations of modern jazz bass players.

Wayne Horvitz

If you are a jazz lover, this is a must-see performance.

Sara Williams

We've made it a practice to go to jazz events across the country, and we're careful to get people who will draw a good crowd.

Al Cook

Jazz has still not gotten to the point where it is totally, the most, the greatest thing is happening in music.

Billy Higgins

History is literally drowning. Bourbon Street will always be there, but that's almost exclusively full of cover bands, and there are a ton of really classic old jazz places that aren't gonna come back.

Chris Lee

Miles Davis was revolutionary as a jazz musician and as an artist he was eclectic as well. He tried it all.

Rudy Siegel

People say we're a jazz group. But there's no way I would ever call myself a jazz drummer. The only thing that's jazz about us is keeping the need to move forward and evolve.

Alan Evans

It is also jazz mass. It is in jazz idiom. There are definitely some Latin-based pieces.

Joe Negri

Things changed so quickly. The Atlantic jazz department just went from under us.

Madeleine Peyroux

Very honored and proud that jazz has brought me to this acclaim by the Canadian people.

Oscar Peterson

It's a terrible shock and loss. He contributed so much to the field of jazz.

Saul Levine

The food, the jazz culture, the lovely ladies; I miss everything about New Orleans.

Justin Spicer

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

Herbie Hancock

It is movement integrated from ballet, modern and jazz.

Stephanie Haymore

I'm one of those rare birds that's in the Clearwater Jazz Holiday hall of fame, ... It's a great tradition. It's been great to watch it morph and grow.

Fred Johnson

Rock 'n' roll, jazz and traditional folk culture.

Robert Hunter

There will be a Jazz Fest in 2006. It will be as close to New Orleans as we can get it.

Quint Davis

Playing jazz has been my whole life, from the age of ten. It's the only thing I know.

John Haley Sims

Also, ... Grappelli didn't start playing jazz until he was an adult, so you hear how he molded (his influences) into the jazz setting.

Mark O'connor

It's not a cheap festival, whether it's the talent or the infrastructure. We feel very fortunate to be able to bring on a partner like this. And it's very good for anybody in our community who feels that the jazz festival is a positive asset.

Jim Horowitz

You may not be able to hire Al Green, but local high schools and colleges might have a jazz band or a choir you can afford.

Suzanne Williamson

He's in a league by himself. Alex has forgotten more about jazz than most of us remember.

Lew Dutrow

What we try to do is stagger the entertainment so anyone coming at any time of the day would get a mix of entertainment ? spoken word, jazz and gospel ? that mix.

Betty Andrews

Had it not been for jazz our hotels would not have done so well.

Horace Peterkin

Jazz at Lincoln Center is so grateful to the many friends from around the world who so generously contributed to this cause to help rebuild the Crescent City.

Derek E. Gordon

I hope to find jazz artists not quite ready for prime time.

Branford Marsalis

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.

Max Roach

Jazz in New Orleans - that's what the world loves.

Renaud Donnedieu De Vabres

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.

Wes Montgomery

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Herbie Hancock

We're not a jazz band. A jazz band is for listening, and a dance band is for dancing. They are entirely different animals.

Ross Leeper

As with jazz, every performance is new and fresh. When it's in a museum setting, it automatically gives it a new context.

Curtis Carter

Soft Machine were going more in the direction of fusion jazz and I didn't like that.

Kevin Ayers

More variety, not the same thing every class. Every 10 weeks we have new music, top 40 to country to jazz. It's always changing.

Tanya Thompson

Chicago was jazzy, man, jazzy - they had all the great jazz men.

Lionel Hampton

It's hard to top this. There is no bigger deal in jazz.

Jonathan Lane

We wanted to jazz up the pants more.

Dave Witty

Most of the music we will be performing is by major black jazz musicians and composers.

Glenn Martin

All of the bands have experienced significant growth. And the jazz program has doubled.

Travis Almany

Yeah, I've always thought it had sort of a jazz improvisation aspect to it.

John Doe

The year kicks off with the efforts on Jazz.

Robert Milton

It's certainly nice to get some excitement about your work, ... Especially in jazz these days. It's not the best of time, you know.

Mark Murphy

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

Nat King Cole

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.

Melvin Maddocks

I couldn't believe how much all that little nitty-gritty can really jazz a house up.

Daniel Guadalupe

It was the first 36 (in all-around) for Jazz. She had a really good meet.

Lindsay Teisl

I've done what I've done but it's not enough. I'm a student of jazz and there's just so much more to learn.

James Moody

[The concert and clinic] aren't just for jazz fans, [they're] for music fans. We want people in the community to be exposed to music of a different culture.

Dan Weiner

Look, jazz has always had, because of its origins, that's the only reason. It's the only reason it's like that. Where it came from. It's not accepted.

Billy Higgins

The show was fantastic and was everything I could have expected from a live jazz concert.

Chris Reynolds

This weekend's concert is a great opportunity for people in the community to hear jazz for a lot less money.

Lew Dutrow

I had a great two years here. Everybody treated me so well. But now I just try to do my best for the Jazz.

Mehmet Okur

We are the only major capital city in the world that doesn't have a jazz festival. It's a shame to me. This is the nation's capital. Jazz was invented in this country.

Charles Fishman

Treme has been a very vibrant area in terms of nurturing jazz through the generations.

Michael Murphy

There will be a Jazz Fest in 2006. It will be in Louisiana. It will be as close to New Orleans as we can get it.

Quint Davis

It's here to stay, and it's part of American culture just like jazz is part of American history.

Valeska Hilbig

He's one of the best jazz guitarists in the world, totally at the top of his game.

Dana Roberts

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.

Herbie Hancock

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

Louis Armstrong

Alex has gone to jazz camps for years and networked to get to know the players.

Lew Dutrow

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

Edgar Winter

What I do and enjoy best, playing mainstream jazz.

Ernie Watts

Summer Jazz at the Moonlight 2005.

Ernie Watts

Jazz: it's got folk, it's got funk, it's got various international influences...it's also got some pop and rock elements.

Ember Swift