Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

To play without passion is inexcusable.

I’m trying to get people to see that we are our brother’s keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.

I love Jazz because it has the perfect balance of discipline and freedom.

Don’t settle for style. Succeed in substance.

There are some people that if they don’t know, you can’t tell them.

The deeper you get into the music allows the ability to appreciate art and all other forms of expression.

Inspiration comes from tunes you play, other musicians and your own imagination.

I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.

To get the music the way you want it, there’s a lot of work involved.

Silence is what makes music sexy. I just move blocks of silence around. The notes are an afterthought.

Wes Montgomery played impossible things on the guitar because it was never pointed out to him that they were impossible.

We don’t talk music. We just play.

Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn’t about standing still and being safe.

The audience, they’re not professionals. They just love music. It isn’t necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

I’m a big fan of music, a student. I just wanna learn and keep enhancing my education about Jazz.

I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you’d see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15.