You blows who you is.
Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.
If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.
You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.
Making money aint nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat and when you die youre just as graveyard dead as he is.
What we play is life.
I don’t need words. It’s all in the phrasing.
You only get better by playing.
There are a million good tunes.
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.
My singing evolved with a feeling of intense relaxation, always using my diaphram and breathing specifically through my nose.
There’s always this sound out there that’s just a little beyond my reach and that just sort of keeps me going.
I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.
As long as musicians have passion for spontaneity and creating something that’s never been before, Jazz will flourish.
What are you going to do when you love music? You can’t stop.
It’s either hip or it ain’t.
One shouldn’t be in the habit of quoting oneself.
Music is born out of the inner sounds within a soul.
Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues!
There is a time where you’re beyond yourself, better than your technique, better than your usual ideas.
The boppers flat their fifths. We consume ours.
