Michelle Ryan Quotes

I love, you know, a lot of jazz, John Coltrane.

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.

My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians.

If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.

I'm not a big jazz fan.

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation.

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

I'm a great jazz fan.

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

I have a secret love of jazz.

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

When it's all said and done, jazz with a capital J is where I'm coming from. Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk - that's what I really studied when I was a teenager and what really fueled my passion.