Dexter Gordon

If you can’t play the blues, you might as well hang it up.

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

What I’m doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word – I love it.

The music scene is more competitive in the States.

If you can’t play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

I hope we left you with something to put under your pillow.

The audience should feel they are hearing the future, arriving just on time.

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, ‘That’s just that ole blues singer.’

One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll find ’em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of ’em.

It’s the same for listeners. If you can’t stand your girlfriend, can’t take it anymore, put on your headphones and escape into another world.

I can’t understand guys who just have to have your autograph. What do you do when you get home, take it out and look at it?

Jazz is a work in progress. We’ll be defining traditions in Jazz for 200-300 years.

There’s a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

It’s not what you do, but the way you’re doing it and in the end that’s all that we have.

I’m a big fan of music, a student. I just wanna learn and keep enhancing my education about Jazz.

No one remembers who wrote the tune, putting pen to paper in some lonely place. They remember who had the hit.

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.

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

We usually never got out of there before four or five o’clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.

I’m meant to be an artist who can stand on my own. That’s my place; that’s what I’m supposed to do.