Dewey Redman

You get that right tickin’ rhythm, man and its ON!

I don’t get jazz. It always sounds like a bunch of toddlers let loose in a music room.

One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music.

The extreme dynamic and percussive possibilities of an acoustic guitar amplified through a bridge pickup have, over many years of performing, informed not only the way I play, but the way I write and sing too. My guitar taught me to sing in textures, from the roundest lingering harmonic to the sharpest snap of a pulled string. Being a percussion instrument as well as a melodic instrument, my guitar also teaches me about the relationship between rhythm and melody. Portable. Did I mention it also taught me about being portable?

I’m using the insides of sounds to move around in a very subtle way which, I think, ends up being inevitable. I feel its the only solution to that particular problem that I presented myself.

You want the audience to feel what you’re doing.

Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live.

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.?

I am a writer – that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

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 could go out and eat and come back and the note would still be playing.

An artist should write for himself and not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

Just because I’m playing Jazz I don’t forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through Jazz.