Placido Domingo

It’s not uncomfortable for me to be a sideman, but I feel more comfortable as a bandleader.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night, but differently each time.

You’ve got to be willing to put stuff on the line, otherwise it doesn’t have much meaning.

Your humanity is your instrument.

A guitar is something you can hold and love and it’s never going to bug you. But here’s the secret about the guitar – it’s defiant. It will never let you conquer it. The more you get involved with it, the more you realize how little you know.

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

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

Jazz – it takes passion to make it happen!

A Jazz musician is supposed to find his voice, find his niche and do his thing.

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it’s like the human voice

The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.

Hipness is what it is. But sometimes hipness is what it ain’t.

If I don’t practice for a day, I know it… for two days, the critics know it… three days, the public knows it.

I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.