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TOM CHAPIN I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played...
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GEORGE CLINTON Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also...
ALEX CLARE My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me i...
TONY IOMMI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European ...
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ALLEN TOUSSAINT The food, the jazz culture, the lovely ladies; I miss everything about New Orleans.
JUSTIN SPICER![]()
My initial training was on the keyboard - mainly the great American songbook. In junior high, during...
ANAT COHEN![]()
I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every...
CARLOS SANTANA There's only two people in blues who have names like that. There's B.B. King and Buddy Guy. But Budd...
AL BRICKER My mind is stuffed with quotes. Lines, couplets, paragraphs, stanzas; Bessie Smith, Stevie Smith, Ti...
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I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my in...
KENNY G![]()
My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them...
ALVIN LEE One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player f...
TREVOR DONOVAN He got really attached to her, she sat on his knee and he sang along to her.
ANNA FRIEL![]()
Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions ...
BRANFORD MARSALIS![]()
At Paramount, I sat at lunch with John Wayne. I couldn't even talk.
MARLON BRANDO The city of New Orleans with its famous coffee and beignets, Jazz Music and beautiful architecture w...
BILL BURKE kicking New Orleans while it's down.
HENRY CISNEROS I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
JOHNNY RAMONE Rock and roll is one of the great American art forms, just like jazz, blues, and bluegrass. We love ...
TOM SMITH My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought an...
HALEY REINHART By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.
HOZIER![]()
When I heard Charlie Parker, I knew that that was going to be the new wave, the new way to play jazz...
BUDDY DEFRANCO My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.
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The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat ...
WYNTON MARSALIS In New Orleans, bounce music was prevalent. That was all they wanted to hear. It was new and trendy,...
MYSTIKAL![]()
We're going to kill ourselves this week to bring the spirit of jazz (back to New Orleans).
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SCOTT REED It was at the original WAMO studios in Homestead, ... Porky taped us doing 'Tequila' and 'Heavy Suga...
BOB LEONE The youngest guy I ever worked with who played at a successful level is Aaron Brooks in New Orleans....
MIKE MCCARTHY Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.
ALEXIS KORNER I think people are buying out of early nostalgia and sadness. They are buying up things they loved a...
STEVE YATES When I'd hear something that sounded like I could follow it - most of those big band jazz tunes ...
JOHNNY GIMBLE![]()
The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
JACK NICHOLSON![]()
The blues and jazz will live forever, ... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
JACK NICHOLSON Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is ja...
AL JARREAU All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
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CHARLIE HADEN![]()
I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call ...
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DAVE RADER The reason New Orleans is still around is because of the celebrations it has inspired since its ince...
IRVIN MAYFIELD All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
MOSE ALLISON As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
EDGAR WINTER![]()
I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve ...
BRAD PAISLEY![]()
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
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DUSTAN E. MCCOY![]()
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA![]()
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just...
ETTA JAMES![]()
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on st...
BEN KINGSLEY We will be having our jazz jam on Fat Tuesday with many special guests, food and drink specials to h...
LEE FRANKEL Harrah's New Orleans is a vitally important property to us, and we want one of our most skilled oper...
ANTHONY SANFILIPPO![]()
Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New O...
JOY HARJO I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals...
ERNEST J. GAINES When we first found it was going to hit New Orleans, a couple of us players, we sat down and saw wha...
DARIUS REYNAUD I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship...
ADRIAN MITCHELL [And most jazz in New Orleans has a directness about it.] Everyone isn't searching for the hottest, ...
MAURICE BROWN Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and ...
DAVE VAN RONK Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcol...
DR. JOHN When the tribe first sat down in a circle and agreed to allow only one person to speak at a time - t...
JUDGE CURTIS BOK![]()
Out of the frying pan into the fire. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
JOHN HEYWOOD T was in a blue mood , his open reflections on the isloation of his life floating like Jazz notes un...
SAIRA VIOLA This situation has nothing to do with Darren Howard's knee. This is all about Darren Howard and the ...
DARREN HOWARD Buffett came and sat in with us the other night in Chicago. That was fun. He and I played 'A Pirate ...
JACK JOHNSON And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. New Testament
BIBLE Jazz is cultural music in New Orleans. It's part of the fabric of everyday life, and everybody knows...
DONALD HARRISON![]()
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can rem...
AARON NEVILLE While the people of New Orleans and other affected areas clearly need help, I am not convinced that ...
JAMES SENSENBRENNER The guitar poured out its soul, its history, its dreams, its pain, its victories, its secrets. The g...
BRENDA SUTTON ROSE These babies ain’t just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments.
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JEANNE FLEMING I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.
BOB LIVINGSTON [Early on, he repeated a famous line from his first flight --] Zero-G and I feel fine ... Godspeed, ...
SCOTT CARPENTER His foot was really bothering him tonight. He probably shouldn't have played at all. Had John Little...
GREG MCDERMOTT I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz a...
RICHIE HAVENS What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history bec...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE Somebody said on TV the other night that New Orleans had died. New Orleans was murdered. Neglect and...
CYRIL NEVILLE I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.
TED KING She sat for at least three songs, just dangling there. She was hanging onto the rafters, sitting on ...
JAIME WHITNEY I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship...
ADRIAN MITCHELL People hear traditional jazz and think it's stale, where there are so many ways it can be opened...
BRIA SKONBERG At Old Dominion, we didn't start with any intensity, while they were fired up and played really well...
SYLVIA HATCHELL The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the def...
JIM GARRISON I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
IRVIN MAYFIELD I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.
EDDIE MONEY I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I Look at New Orleans. They're in the race. It's going to be a fight to the end. But right now, it's t...
JASON TERRY I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, ...
OTIS RUSH When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then...
OTIS BLACKWELL![]()
I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every...
CARLOS SANTANA![]()
It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best ...
AARON NEVILLE![]()
Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Or...
TONY BENNETT My favorite team while I was growing up was the New Orleans Saints. My favorite player was Joe Horn.
JACOBY JONES![]()
It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition ...
DAVID SANBORN
COLIN MELOY Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan ...
TOM CHAPIN I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played...
ALEXIS KORNER
Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here... B. B. KING I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's ...
GEORGE CLINTON Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also...
ALEX CLARE My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me i...
TONY IOMMI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European ...
THE EDGE Danny Cox is a well-known name in Kansas among lovers of blues and jazz. His guitar playing is fluid...
CONSTANCE BERNSTEIN Dr. John is phenomenal. Dr. John is a heavyweight and one of the nicest guys in the world -- unhurri...
ALLEN TOUSSAINT The food, the jazz culture, the lovely ladies; I miss everything about New Orleans.
JUSTIN SPICER
My initial training was on the keyboard - mainly the great American songbook. In junior high, during... ANAT COHEN
I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every... CARLOS SANTANA There's only two people in blues who have names like that. There's B.B. King and Buddy Guy. But Budd...
AL BRICKER My mind is stuffed with quotes. Lines, couplets, paragraphs, stanzas; Bessie Smith, Stevie Smith, Ti...
MARGO JEFFERSON
I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my in... KENNY G
My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them... ALVIN LEE One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player f...
TREVOR DONOVAN He got really attached to her, she sat on his knee and he sang along to her.
ANNA FRIEL
Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions ... BRANFORD MARSALIS
At Paramount, I sat at lunch with John Wayne. I couldn't even talk. MARLON BRANDO The city of New Orleans with its famous coffee and beignets, Jazz Music and beautiful architecture w...
BILL BURKE kicking New Orleans while it's down.
HENRY CISNEROS I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
JOHNNY RAMONE Rock and roll is one of the great American art forms, just like jazz, blues, and bluegrass. We love ...
TOM SMITH My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought an...
HALEY REINHART By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.
HOZIER
When I heard Charlie Parker, I knew that that was going to be the new wave, the new way to play jazz... BUDDY DEFRANCO My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.
HOZIER
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat ... WYNTON MARSALIS In New Orleans, bounce music was prevalent. That was all they wanted to hear. It was new and trendy,...
MYSTIKAL
We're going to kill ourselves this week to bring the spirit of jazz (back to New Orleans). WYNTON MARSALIS The front-runner in the Republican party will be John McCain, based on his performance at the conven...
SCOTT REED It was at the original WAMO studios in Homestead, ... Porky taped us doing 'Tequila' and 'Heavy Suga...
BOB LEONE The youngest guy I ever worked with who played at a successful level is Aaron Brooks in New Orleans....
MIKE MCCARTHY Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.
ALEXIS KORNER I think people are buying out of early nostalgia and sadness. They are buying up things they loved a...
STEVE YATES When I'd hear something that sounded like I could follow it - most of those big band jazz tunes ...
JOHNNY GIMBLE
The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy. JACK NICHOLSON
The blues and jazz will live forever, ... So will the Delta and the Big Easy. JACK NICHOLSON Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is ja...
AL JARREAU All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
MOSE ALLISON I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming ...
CHARLIE HADEN
I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call ... KATE MCKINNON
My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign ... HARRY CONNICK, JR. Coming out of last spring, we had a lot of confidence in John Parker and what he could do. If Brodie...
DAVE RADER The reason New Orleans is still around is because of the celebrations it has inspired since its ince...
IRVIN MAYFIELD All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
MOSE ALLISON As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
EDGAR WINTER
I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve ... BRAD PAISLEY
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. MAHALIA JACKSON During his seven years at Billiards, John oversaw a very successful and comprehensive re-branding ef...
DUSTAN E. MCCOY
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. CHRISTINA AGUILERA
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just... ETTA JAMES
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on st... BEN KINGSLEY We will be having our jazz jam on Fat Tuesday with many special guests, food and drink specials to h...
LEE FRANKEL Harrah's New Orleans is a vitally important property to us, and we want one of our most skilled oper...
ANTHONY SANFILIPPO
Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New O... JOY HARJO I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals...
ERNEST J. GAINES When we first found it was going to hit New Orleans, a couple of us players, we sat down and saw wha...
DARIUS REYNAUD I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship...
ADRIAN MITCHELL [And most jazz in New Orleans has a directness about it.] Everyone isn't searching for the hottest, ...
MAURICE BROWN Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and ...
DAVE VAN RONK Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcol...
DR. JOHN When the tribe first sat down in a circle and agreed to allow only one person to speak at a time - t...
JUDGE CURTIS BOK
Out of the frying pan into the fire. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546) JOHN HEYWOOD T was in a blue mood , his open reflections on the isloation of his life floating like Jazz notes un...
SAIRA VIOLA This situation has nothing to do with Darren Howard's knee. This is all about Darren Howard and the ...
DARREN HOWARD Buffett came and sat in with us the other night in Chicago. That was fun. He and I played 'A Pirate ...
JACK JOHNSON And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. New Testament
BIBLE Jazz is cultural music in New Orleans. It's part of the fabric of everyday life, and everybody knows...
DONALD HARRISON
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can rem... AARON NEVILLE While the people of New Orleans and other affected areas clearly need help, I am not convinced that ...
JAMES SENSENBRENNER The guitar poured out its soul, its history, its dreams, its pain, its victories, its secrets. The g...
BRENDA SUTTON ROSE These babies ain’t just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments.
BRENDA SUTTON ROSE When we began thinking about this year's parade and what had happened in New Orleans we realized we ...
JEANNE FLEMING I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.
BOB LIVINGSTON [Early on, he repeated a famous line from his first flight --] Zero-G and I feel fine ... Godspeed, ...
SCOTT CARPENTER His foot was really bothering him tonight. He probably shouldn't have played at all. Had John Little...
GREG MCDERMOTT I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz a...
RICHIE HAVENS What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history bec...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE Somebody said on TV the other night that New Orleans had died. New Orleans was murdered. Neglect and...
CYRIL NEVILLE I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.
TED KING She sat for at least three songs, just dangling there. She was hanging onto the rafters, sitting on ...
JAIME WHITNEY I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship...
ADRIAN MITCHELL People hear traditional jazz and think it's stale, where there are so many ways it can be opened...
BRIA SKONBERG At Old Dominion, we didn't start with any intensity, while they were fired up and played really well...
SYLVIA HATCHELL The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the def...
JIM GARRISON I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
IRVIN MAYFIELD I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.
EDDIE MONEY I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I Look at New Orleans. They're in the race. It's going to be a fight to the end. But right now, it's t...
JASON TERRY I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, ...
OTIS RUSH When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then...
OTIS BLACKWELL
I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every... CARLOS SANTANA
It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best ... AARON NEVILLE
Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Or... TONY BENNETT My favorite team while I was growing up was the New Orleans Saints. My favorite player was Joe Horn.
JACOBY JONES
It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition ... DAVID SANBORN
When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist.... 
The real business of life is trying to understand each other. 
You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you&... 
In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple. 
I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now. 
I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing. 
As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel l... 
I love bayou life. 
Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of thin... 
Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the... 
What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, iron... 
It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur. 
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it... 
My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut. 
You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think. 
Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring. 
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. 
As society advances the standard of poverty rises. 
Only Christ could have conceived Christ. 
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejo... 