Tierney Sutton

I just fell in love with the integrity of the music and that was it.

Look at the tune and not make the same statement that has been made a million times.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

What we play is life.

I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you’d see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15.

The guitar and the dog, in order not to be separated from man, have submitted themselves with resignation to the worst alterations of size and appearance.

Jazzmen are our surrogates for the unpredictable, our paladins of constant change.

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.

Jazz is not gonna be a dinosaur and stay around in one form.

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It’s useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.

Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental precision I admire in classical music, but which popular music doesn’t have.

You don’t know what love is, until you’ve learned the meaning of the blues, until you’ve loved a love you’ve had to lose.

The majority of people mistakenly feel they don’t need a live musical experience.

I think you have to leave a lot to the imagination!

I’m fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

Talent is only the starting point.