Jack Nicholson

He almost adds a Chet-like sound to it.

It’s not technique — it’s what you have to say.

You can cage the singer but not the song.

I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.

If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet. If you feel like clapping your hands, clap your hands. And if you feel like taking off your shoes, take off your shoes. We are here to have a ball. So we want you to leave your worldly troubles outside and come in here and swing.

Kinship doesn’t come from skin color. It’s in your soul and your mind.

I’m using the insides of sounds to move around in a very subtle way which, I think, ends up being inevitable.

There are notes between notes, you know.

Music has to be accessible.

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

When you hear my lyrics, you hear the shots that I throw at people. I throw shots because I always been the underdog. I got rejected so many times, and I say it in my lyrics constantly.

It is better to be felt than to be heard.

Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

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 was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.