Eddi Reader Quotes

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

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

I love classical jazz.

I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.

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

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

The great jazz and jazz-influenced singers carry themselves with a certain panache and a certain elegance and, for lack of a better word, self-confidence.

My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie.

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not really my responsibility to keep it up, what they were doing.

I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.

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.

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.

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.

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 appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

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

I would love to sing with Ella Fitzgerald.

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.