Arturo Sandoval

I am only a mixture of countless influences and thanks to that I am able to find my own style of playing.

Blow your life through your horn.

I don’t get jazz. It always sounds like a bunch of toddlers let loose in a music room.

Jazz amounts to Blues, your unique sound and the elusive genius of improvisation.

The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

Yeah, it’s more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.

Jazz music is a special skill that has brought pleasure to millions throughout the world.

I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.

Jazz standards are our contribution to music history.

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn’t I couldn’t do my best.

Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental precision that I admire in classical music, but which popular music doesn’t have.

I didn’t know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes… man I dug.

I’m believe that all people are in possession of what might be called a ‘universal musical mind.’

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

I didn’t need to worry about keys, chords, melody if I had that emotion that brought tears and laughter to people’s hearts.

Those who were seen dancing were thought insane by those who could not hear the music.

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.