I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval.
Jeff Beck
I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.
Travis Barker
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
Louis Armstrong
I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.
Kathy Acker
That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.
Billy Crystal
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
Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.
Merle Haggard