My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
Neil Young
One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
Mahalia Jackson
The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
Jack Nicholson
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
Mahalia Jackson
What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
Ray Charles
My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!
Etta James
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.
Etta James
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
Isadora Duncan