Eliot Zigmund

Our music is generally the music I would play way back when I was in the record business. So I’ll play World Waiting For The Sunrise and How High The Moon, maybe Over The Rainbow, some standards. But it depends upon the artist that comes up – if people like a certain kind of music, I will focus the show that way. Whoever walks up on to the stage is the star – he is the picture, we are the frame. The frame is there to make the star look better – let’s make this fellow the best he’s ever going to be.

Each time I have the opportunity to play, it’s another chance to tell the truth.

I was not prepared to play the role of singer in the camp of the warriors

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you’re really interested in it.

All I play is truth and emotion.

That’s the beauty of music. They can’t take it from you.

There is a time where you’re beyond yourself, better than your technique, better than your usual ideas.

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

The true beauty of music is that it connects people.

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

The music scene is more competitive in the States.

Jazz music is the real deal.

The weird thing about bass is the simplest stuff to do is the hardest.

Play what you know and then play above that.

I write songs about real things… The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.