Andrew Hill

The fabulous places I’ve been, wonderful things that’ve happened, great people I’ve met ought to make a story.

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

What we hear is the quality of our listening.

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.

To keep a band together you simply need a gimmick. The gimmick I use is to pay them money.

It isn’t where you came from, its where you’re going that counts.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

I’m famous… ain’t that a bitch?

Music is born out of the inner sounds within a soul.

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

It was a great thrill to listen every night and hear him on NBC radio. Les played just as great then. And then later on, in the 1950s, Les Paul turned the whole world on to guitar. He’s just a terrific, flashy, tasty guitarist.

Music is the most interesting thing in the world.

There’s millions and millions of people who think Les Paul is a guitar!

It’s easy in music to tell what’s good. It’s hard to tell what’s bad.

In this trumpet I hear our icons and the sound of the future.