Dave Lambert

The deeper you get into the music allows the ability to appreciate art and all other forms of expression.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

For me, I started on a Les Paul and went through years of playing other guitars and just came back full circle to what was more natural to me.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

You’re just a little too hip for the room. It’s not good to be too hip because two hips make an ass.

I used to play pianos in bars. You know in hotels, you’d see guys playing piano with a snifter? That was me, with a painted-on mustache. I was about 15.

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It’s useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.

I came from an era when we didn’t use electronic instruments. The bass wasn’t even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

You’ve heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that’s because there’s been so many can do it better’n I can, play the blues better’n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.

If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.

Jazz music can relax, soothe and uplift the mind when you absorb it.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

Music and song are, in my opinion, so fine and necessary a part of life that without them we cannot be said really to live at all.