Play it f**kin’ loud!
A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that’s going on right now in a big way.
There’s a spiritual satisfaction that one gets from listening and playing good Jazz.
It’s difficult for me to dislike an artist, no matter what he’s creating.
It’s not what you do, but the way you’re doing it and in the end that’s all that we have.
Jazz music today is from the head and not the heart.
Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you’ve got white, pick it where you’ve got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you’ll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?
We don’t talk music. We just play.
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you dont live it, it wont come out of your horn. They teach you theres a boundary line to music. But, man, theres no boundary line to art.
A beat is a moment in the life a groove.
I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
I didn’t need to worry about keys, chords, melody if I had that emotion that brought tears and laughter to people’s hearts.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it’s almost as if it’s intertwined with society.
Notes are expensive… spend them wisely!
You don’t rehearse Jazz to death to get the camera angles.
