If it wasn’t for hustlers, gangsters and gamblers there’d be no Jazz. Wasn’t middle-class who said Let’s go hear Bird tonight.

Betty Carter

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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.

B. B. King

I do Jazz, Blues, Country and so forth. I do them all like a good utility man.

Ray Charles

Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about Jazz and Blues.

John Mayall

We didn’t have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free

Cab Calloway

Jazz means many things to many people, but it’s all about choices.

Terri Lyne Carrington

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

Pat Metheny

We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.

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Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.

Herbie Mann

You explore beautiful songs and create your own interpretation of them.

Joe Lovano

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness – I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness.

Aaron Copland

Just ’cause I’ve forgotten more than I can play, doesn’t mean it’s not Improv.

Tom Moulton

Jazz can only enhance the Classical side and Classical can only enhance the Jazz side.

Doc Severinsen

Music doesn’t have to hop to be hip, as long as it swings it sings.

Alfredo Rubalcava

I have a deep respect for harmony, melodic patterns and form.

Scott LaFaro

Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens.

Jimi Hendrix