Jazz Instruments Quotes

I'm a great jazz fan.

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

I've always had a love for music, and it developed as I learned jazz, blues, and gospel. And I performed with jazz singers in New Orleans.

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

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

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.

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.

Of course my uncle was a giant, but my dad, in particular, had the house filled with these great Dixieland jazz stars, really the best of them: Henry Red Allen, Willie 'The Lion' Smith, Buster Bailey, Cutty Cutshall, Tyree Glenn, Zutty Singleton. These are all big names in the Dixieland world.

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

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

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.

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 flute's funny. And I'm a big Latin music fan, Tito Puente, Tina Cruz, all that stuff.

I just don't know anything about jazz, really. I've never really listened to it, but I'd definitely like to discover more about it.

The first time I listened to jazz was when I was 8.

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.

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

I belonged to the Columbia Record Club, and that's where my records came from. For some reason, I was in the 'jazz' category. I got Benny Goodman records and Miles Davis, J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding, and that kind of stuff. I really was not a jazz guy at all, but I knew some of those names.

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

I was exposed to jazz early on.

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

I've played with jazz and toyed with it when I used to live near the St. Nicholas Pub in Harlem.