Herb Pomeroy

One of the reasons we’re here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

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.

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.

Ah music… a magic beyond all we do here!

Jazz improvisation is the art of collective negotiated expression.

If a Jazz musician plays someone else’s song, he has a responsibility to make a distinct and original statement.

I’ve never recorded anything I didn’t like.

If a player is pushing their ability, a certain amount of failure is inevitable. Maybe even desirable.

Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.

Jazz is a feeling more than anything else.

Look for the one who’s not smiling and play to that person. Once you’ve got that person, you’ve got the whole club.

Music is the most fantastic drug there is!

Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music.

Music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and charm and gaiety to life.

It’s easier to copy someone else than to find out how to avoid sounding like someone else.