It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.

Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days.

I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.

Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones.

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.