Arturo Sandoval

Blow your life through your horn.

I am only a mixture of countless influences and thanks to that I am able to find my own style of playing.

Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.

We quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.

Musicians need enough experience to develop a vocabulary.

I just remember always trying to emulate Dinah Washington, hanging out in my bedroom closet.

I saw a vibraphone for the first time and knew immediately I had found my means of expression.

I am only a mixture of countless influences and thanks to that I am able to find my own style of playing.

[on B. B. King] Very seldom does he talks about the way he play, man. He always wanna talk about young women. And I fuss at him sometimes, I say, ‘Man I wanna know what did you do here!’

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

I don’t like to look back because the whole point in Jazz is doing it now.

Play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing even if it does take them 15, 20 years.

One minute we’re over here, the next minute we’re doing something completely different. But it’s interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn’t do with analog.

Sound is the first thing that we tune into.

There’s two things you can’t live without. Water and music.

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.