Jazz Festivals Quotes

I'm a great jazz fan.

Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.

I've always thought that jazz needs to be heard by a wider audience in Puerto Rico. I want to put together a series of free concerts in the small towns - one with Miles Davis music, another with bebop, maybe Duke Ellington. I want younger people to see what is possible.

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

As I've gotten older, my love for jazz has increased.

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would have done OK. I'm not sure I would have done great. I'm a lover of jazz music, so I would have been happy, don't get me wrong. I go to jazz concerts like the biggest jazz fan in world. The drag is that I don't play jazz for a living.

I love classical jazz.

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.

The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and an aura around the festival.

I've always loved jazz.

As late as the early '50s, jazz was still, for the most part, a genuinely popular music, a utilitarian, song-based idiom to which ordinary people could dance if they felt like it.

Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.

Preservation Hall is the sound of joy. When they start playing, people start moving.

They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back.

Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.

I have a secret love of jazz.

I'm not a big jazz fan.

We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.

The world I live in is benefiting from things like satellite radio. Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.