Gil Evans

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

People couldn’t give an F about how many cars you got any more. It’s about the way the music sounds, where you’re going, the experience you’re going to hanging out with your friends, the type clothes that you’re wearing – all of that’s art.

There is no truer truth obtainable by man than comes of music.

There are a million good tunes.

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

You don’t have to live the blues to play the blues.

Whenever I’m in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here – like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things – but I couldn’t do what they did. They were too good.

Keep searching for that sound you hear in your head until it becomes a reality.

People who like Jazz feel the depth and soul and intelligence that the music expresses.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.

Jazz is not a what, it is a how.

I like jazz, rock n’ roll, some hip hop – I can’t think of any music I don’t like.

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

Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that’s all it is about is opinions.

Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.