Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
Music used to be essential and meaningful, but now it’s disposable.
A musician starting out today should get a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument.
I never heard of a Jazz musician who retired. You love what you do, so what are you going to do… play for the walls?
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. They are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence. These are the qualities I want to retain in my music.
[on Django Reinhardt] By far the most astonishing guitar player ever Django was quite superhuman, there’s nothing normal about him as a person or a player
If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.
For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
Music is the tool to express life – and all that makes a difference.
To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.
One of the advantages of growing older is you learn what to leave out.
Our music artistry should not be disconnected from our lives or ourselves.
Jazz and love are the hardest things to describe from rationale.
You don’t rehearse Jazz to death to get the camera angles.
I have a sense of the importance of music and how powerful it is to bring people together.
