Charlie Hunter

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

I’m fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

Man, if you gotta ask you’ll never know.

Improvisation is the most widespread of all musical activities. Why did so many people spend so long pretending it never happened?

I guess what everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved. And to know that you loved me for my singing is too much for me. Forgive me if I don’t have all the words. Maybe I can sing it and you’ll understand.

I could see the blues was about survival.

There are some people that if they don’t know, you can’t tell them.

Difference between sex and love? Well, you’re not always sure you’re in love. But when you’re having sex, there’s really no mistaking it.

Jazz is America’s classical music.

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

I’m not a star. I’m just backing up the cats.

Art should teach spirituality by showing a person a portion of himself that he would not discover otherwise.

I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

There’s a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There’s also happiness to it if you want to hear it.

I’ve had a lot of things to be proud of in my life, but none more than the Jazz festival.