“Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.” Theodor Seuss Geisel, American writer, poet, and cartoonist, widely known as Dr. Seuss,…

“You must own it to play it.” Roy Haynes – American jazz drummer & bandleader, among the most recorded drummers in jazz, with a career lasting more than 60…

"Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music." Maynard Ferguson Canadian trumpet and flugelhorn player and bandleader. Ferguson came to prominence in Stan Kenton’s…

"Players are coming from other backgrounds: rock, folk, ethnic music. It's changing Jazz for the better." Billy Taylor - an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster, and educator. Dr. Taylor…

"The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen." Duke Ellington - American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington is…

"I just fell in love with the integrity of the music & that was it.” Tierney Sutton – Gifted American jazz vocalist and arranger with a strong, wide-ranging, uncluttered…

"The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it." Nathaniel Adams Coles, known professionally as Nat King Cole. An American jazz vocalist, Cole first…

"I think music needs to be of its time & speak to that time. I think that what is important is that the music be honest & direct & that…

"Most jazz players work out their solos to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary." Lee Konitz - American alto saxophonist who improvises long, melodic lines with…

“Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers” — Max Roach an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer. A pioneer of bebop, and considered…

"Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents. There must be respect for the people that have gone before." - Jon Hendricks, an American jazz lyricist and…