Bob Dorough

I am very aware that so little has happened to the electric guitar from the time that it was conceived to now; where there are so little changes made where there should be drastic changes made. If we were to put our heads together and start thinking about modern technology we would be much more advantaged with the electric guitar than we are. I think that we’ve been stagnant for many years.

I like the music. I love it and live it in fact, but for me the business part just plain stinks.

T-Bone was, to me, that sound of being in heaven.

External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.

If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

I’ve noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

Beiderbecke took out a silver cornet, put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying ‘yes.’

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

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

If the audience doesn’t hear what is going on, is it going on?

My role as a drummer is as a team player to enhance what is going on around me.

Being a musician is what I do, but it’s not what I am.

Being a Jazz musician is not a rose garden!