Andrew Gilbert

I hope my recordings of my own works won’t inhibit other people’s performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn’t always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.

You usually can’t tell what’s inspiring until you look back on it.

One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

The time is now.

Living is easy with eyes closed.

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn’t, I don’t really see a point to it.

There is no truer truth obtainable by man than comes of music.

I’m always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

[In 1969] I think lyrics have always been important to any serious writer of music.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking, now heaven knows, anything goes.

Through Dizzy and Bird I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.

My Strat is another arm, it’s part of me. It doesn’t feel like a guitar at all. It’s an implement which is my voice.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

I’ll keep evolving and put that into my songs.