jazz artist Quotes

Kenny Burrell that's the sound I'm looking for.

I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.

I listen to a lot of Freddie Hubbard.

If I have to be considered any type of jazz artist, it would be New Orleans jazz because New Orleans jazz never forgot that jazz is dance music and jazz is fun. I'm more influenced by that style of jazz than anything else.

My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet.

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

I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.

I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.

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

I called the great French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and I said 'So, who's the new cat? Who's got the stuff? And he said Zach Brock.

I think that a rap aficionado, the hardcore rap fan, will always go away from pop, in the same way a hardcore jazz fan will never think Kenny G is really a jazz artist. You gotta kind of know there's always going to be that purist who's going to be like if it ain't beats and rhymes, if there ain't a DJ, then that ain't Hip Hop.

Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own.

Tony Bennett is an iconic jazz legend.