Grace Testani

I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

I’m… a rather simple person with a limited talent and perhaps a limited perspective.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest.

All of the technique doesn’t matter… only if the feeling is right.

Music can’t save the world, but can make one a little calmer.

Never play anything the same way twice.

The emotional reaction is all that matters.

Music should enrich the soul; it should teach spirituality by showing a person a portion of himself that he would not discover otherwise. It’s easy to rediscover part of yourself, but through art you can be shown part of yourself you never knew existed. That’s the real mission of art. The artist has to find something within himself that’s universal and which he can put into terms that are communicable to other people. The magic of it is that art can communicate to a person without his realizing it.

You blows who you is.

Music must be an innovation.

Music is an addiction.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.

You must own it to play it.

Music chooses her musicians.