Mary Kingsley

I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later.

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

In this trumpet I hear our icons and the sound of the future.

If music is sound and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

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.

Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.

Jazz is a living music; since its beginning has expressed the feelings, dreams and hopes of the people.

I listen to all kinds of songs. There’s something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it’s pop or jazz or hip-hop.

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn’t play like Wynton.

My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it was all for my audience.

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

I do the best I can with any instrument I get attracted to. But they’re just tools in order for you to express yourself and that’s really the upshot of it.

Sound is the first thing that we tune into.

The more you play, the more you hear and the more you hear, the more you want to play.

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.