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All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

— Mose Allison

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

— Edgar Winter

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

— Norman Granz

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

— Robert Quine

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

— Mose Allison

I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.

— Flea

All of the most popular music of the '30s and '40s were deeply informed by jazz.

— Terry Teachout

As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.

— Jim Coleman

I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

— Johnny Ramone

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

— Alexis Korner

We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.

— Butch Trucks