Django Reinhardt

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

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.

I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.

Yeah, it’s more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

I’m famous… ain’t that a bitch?

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

The point of Jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

Musicians need enough experience to develop a vocabulary.

I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat.

I wanna hear myself everywhere

Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

I’m fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

Spontaneously composed music is a counterpoint that has its own rules based on a natural order and intuitive logic.

You have to sound sad first, then maybe later you can sound good.