Luis De Briçeño

The arranger doesn’t get any royalties, but I had so much fun doing it.

My Strat is another arm, it’s part of me. It doesn’t feel like a guitar at all. It’s an implement which is my voice.

The whole concept for the Yeezus album is that we’re not going to be using CDs in the future and since this is the last time we’re going to see it, this is an open casket for the CD.

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother’s aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was 6 years old.

Jazz is the assassination, the murdering, the slaying of syncopation. I would even go so far as to confess that we are musical anarchists.

I don’t do something because I think it’ll sell 30 million albums. I couldn’t care less if it sells just one.

The emotional reaction is all that matters.

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

When Bird came on the scene, it was shocking as in the Bible: everything was dark and then there was light.

There’s a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

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

Well, for me it’s – music is the instrument of life.

What’s tied Jazz together is its foundation in the Blues, a reliance on group interplay and the unique phenomenon of spontaneous improvisation.