Gabor Szabo

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

I’ve always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn’t have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night, but differently each time.

There’s so many ways you can hit one note.

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

If you play a tune and a person don’t tap their feet, don’t play the tune.

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

I don’t try to please when I play. I try to cure.

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

Jazz – it takes passion to make it happen!

I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.

Don’t say Aretha is making a comeback, because I’ve never been away!

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

I have no one style.