Friedrich Nietzsche

Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good – he’s rock’s #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us.

One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music. That was his reason for being alive. Nothing else mattered except music, really.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

Jazz music is haunted by its own hungry ghosts.

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

Jazz music is the real deal.

Find the best teachers, listen to the finest playing and try to emulate that. Be true to the music.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

I always wanted to play the piano, and jazz appealed to me.

You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

Forgive me if I don’t have the words. Maybe I can sing it and you’ll understand.

What’s tied Jazz together is its foundation in the Blues, a reliance on group interplay and the unique phenomenon of spontaneous improvisation.

Even if you have some brilliant jazz ideas, it’s going to be difficult to get them across unless you have 1-a distinctive sound or 2- a loud sound. These are musts.

You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That’s jazz.