Dave Holland

Just allow your feelings to go with the music and you’ll find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly.

I think that what is important is that the music be honest and direct and that it is relevant to today.

I think music needs to be of its time and speak to that time.

I sing like I feel.

Don’t say Aretha is making a comeback, because I’ve never been away!

A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don’t do that on stage.

When there was vinyl, I just loved opening a record and smelling that wonderful smell.

In order to be honest with myself, I have to reveal more of who I am. This is a part of the improv process.

I have younger friends who don’t work and they aren’t doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working.

The main thing is you want to emote.

Those who were seen dancing were thought insane by those who could not hear the music.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Musicians need to continue higher learning try to expand the pallet.

Stevie didn’t use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don’t use my work to further the tools.

I’m fortunate that I’m making a living at it now because I’m not equipped to do anything else.

I’ve tried all my life to avoid copying. If I can’t be myself, there’s no point being in Jazz.

You can’t go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

The prospect of having to sit through one of Rachmaninov’s extended symphonies or piano concertos tends, quite frankly, to depress me. All those notes, and to what end?