Claudia Acuna

I don’t want to sing anything that doesn’t come real.

If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!

Jazz – it takes passion to make it happen!

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll find ’em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of ’em.

Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

People will always need love, romance, a tender touch and really personal and deeply felt music.

Music has to be accessible.

Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about Jazz and Blues.

Living is easy with eyes closed.

When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent’s disapproval.

I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

The Jazz Age became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.

It’s all music.