Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.
I cant understand these guys who just have to have your autograph. I asked one of them What do you do when you get home, take it out and look at it?
The qualities in music I consider most important are beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination and sincerity.
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night, but differently each time.
The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.
I want to create music that’s therapeutic.
If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying.
There are a million good tunes.
In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.
Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.
[on Django Reinhardt] By far the most astonishing guitar player ever Django was quite superhuman, there’s nothing normal about him as a person or a player
If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.
We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity.
Once I could play what I heard inside me, that’s when I was born.
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
It’s not that you want to sing, it’s that you have to sing.
And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.
As long as you’ve got your horn in your mouth, you’re developing.
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that’s it. No America, no jazz. I’ve seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn’t have a damn thing to do with Africa.
You don’t chose your inspirations, they chose you.
You explore beautiful songs and create your own interpretation of them.
