It’s all music.
There is no art without intention.
Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.
It’s like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.
Playing bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
Music is what I hear and something that I live by.
Women bring something different to an instrument if they are respectful of their feminine aesthetic.
I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.
I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won’t come out.
Music should always be an adventure.
An orchestra can become as familiar and reliable an instrument as a well-known, well-worn piano.
You give up your own personality when you imitate somebody.
To work is to feel alive.
Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it’s because music is fun, plain and simple.
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.
They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.
Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential.
I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine.
What I learned the most from Prince was putting art first, being creatively ambitious, and putting creativity at the forefront of what I do.
What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
If the bass plays the root, a pianist superimposes a Maj7 built on the 5th and the sax plays the 13th, will hot women notice?
