Django Reinhardt

It doesn’t matter all that much. It’s just that when you’re playing, Stephane, you’ve got both Chaput and me backing you, but when I’m soloing I’ve only got one guitar behind me!

Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental precision that I admire in classical music, but which popular music doesn’t have.

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.

That’s a great thing about jazz. We leave it a little space so that we have the opportunity to go where the moment takes us

The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.

My music had roots which I’d dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

Typically I go in the studio and whatever I’m contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don’t come in with lyrics… I just go in and let it happen.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

They’re not particular whether you’re playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.

Jazz has always been a man telling the truth about himself.

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about Jazz and Blues.

For most dates I was paid the sum of $1 per hr and they always tipped me at the end of the night.

I started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that’s just the way it came out.

Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.

The guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It’s everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It’s everything, but it’s elusive.

Music is a calling that you must bring your best to, whether listening, practicing or performing.