Charlie Hunter

The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

Jazz music has always been a place where anything is possible.

Living is easy with eyes closed.

If it wasn’t for hustlers, gangsters and gamblers there’d be no Jazz. Wasn’t middle-class who said Let’s go hear Bird tonight.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking… The new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.

I can play all I know in eight bars.

Good music is good music and everything else can go to hell.

In this era it’s harder for musicians to get together, … Back in the ’80s, we were all at the clubs, you ran into people all the time. Now, everybody’s kind of in their own room with their computers. I use making an album as an opportunity to connect with musicians.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art, instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

What are you going to do when you love music? You can’t stop.

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don’t know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.

I like the interplay in the music.

Jazz improvisation is the art of drawing without an eraser.

A series of vibrations. What does it matter, the source of the catalyst?