Dixieland Quotes:

I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don't know.

- Miles Davis

topic: Stupid, People, Bops, Dixieland

... Everything we (the Grateful Dead) ever did was a demonstration of the value of cross-fertilization, It was unconscious at first, but when we started looking at each other, we had all these different influences... Bobby Weir used to call it electric Dixieland.

- Phil Lesh

topic: Music, Grateful, Different, Dixieland, Fertilization

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.

- Ben Harper

topic: Inspiration, Rocks, Jazz, Dixieland

[I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course my uncle was a giant [music producer], but my dad in particular had the house filled with these Dixieland jazz stars.

- Billy Crystal

source: "Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. October 17, 2013.

topic: Stars, Uncles, Dad, Dixieland, Music Producer

I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I loved The Monkees, The Beatles, The Eagles, and America.

- Page Hamilton

topic: Kids, Eagles, Play, Dixieland