Arthur Honegger

I’ve seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I’m that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don’t think so.

Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

You can’t rehearse a blues darlin’.

Jazz stresses less on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content.

The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

I’m gonna live till I die.

The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.

[Stratocaster vs Les Paul] It’s a totally different animal. One is for very subtle and, I would say, more musical things that you can distract and abuse. You can’t do that with a Les Paul. It’s too delicate. It’s got a very delicate tone; most people don’t ever realize that because they are plugged into monstrous amplifiers which completely, instantaneously covers up the unique sound quality it has. All those years of development go straight out the window when you overload the amp.

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

If you have something in your life worth celebrating, you can put it in a blues song.

I’m a big fan of music, a student. I just wanna learn and keep enhancing my education about Jazz.

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

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That’s why I wanted the clarinet.

I learn something new every day.