My music is Jazz.
External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.
If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business.
With the birth of the first artist, came the inevitable afterbirth… the first critic
Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
It isn’t where you came from, it’s where you’re going that counts.
The Blues and Jazz will live forever. So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
Wes Montgomery played impossible things on the guitar because it was never pointed out to him that they were impossible.
I think the one thing that I’ve learned is that you cannot predict what’s going to happen. You can’t sit back and try to figure out what people want or leave it up to them to decide. When we all started in this business we would dictate to the audience what was great and they picked up on that based on the fact that we believed that it was great. But that’s all changed. What’s happened in the last ten years or so because is that the technology now means that everyone with a computer can make music and I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not.
The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.
I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.
So much of Jazz doesn’t have an audience other than music students or musicians.
Stop before you’re done.
Jazz stands for freedom.
