It’s all music.
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
Life has two rules: 1. Never quite 2. Always remember 1.
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.
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
Playing bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
There is no art without intention.
After the music is over it’s gone in the air. You can never capture it again.
Jazz has evolved with an inner necessity characteristic of any true art form.
Wes Montgomery played impossible things on the guitar because it was never pointed out to him that they were impossible.
I wanna hear myself everywhere
I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
There are some people that if they don’t know, you can’t tell them.
Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you’re not feeling right, play a minor tune and it falls into place.
The hidden things, the subconscious that lies in the body and lets you know: You feel this, you play this.
The point of Jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
Master your instrument, master the music and then forget all that and just play.
I’d take my guitar and play on the streets. A gospel song would get me a pat on the head. But a blues would get me a dime. So you see why I stuck with the blues.
I don’t really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I’d like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.
Trying to play the new concept with a outward bound feeling.
You don’t know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.
Music and song are, in my opinion, so fine and necessary a part of life that without them we cannot be said really to live at all.
