Dave Holland

Just allow your feelings to go with the music and you’ll find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly.

I think music needs to be of its time and speak to that time.

Jazz has such great feeling and emotional content it really doesn’t require technical understanding.

Vocalists must study music and know everything an instrumentalist needs to know.

What a fool I am to think my breaking heart could kid the moon.

What’s tied Jazz together is its foundation in the Blues, a reliance on group interplay and the unique phenomenon of spontaneous improvisation.

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

You gotta love livin’, baby, ’cause dyin’ is a pain in the ass.

Don’t give up trying to do what you really want. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

Music is like wine, the less you know about it the sweeter you like it. 

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.?

The thing I always default to is that I’ll always be here to write songs.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

I haven’t a great Jazz band and I don’t want one.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

I have music inside me and I’m very lucky to be able to play music and that’s the way that I try to do it.

You don’t know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.