Joan Baez

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

Jazz and love are the hardest things to describe from rationale.

I’ve had a lot of things to be proud of in my life, but none more than the Jazz festival.

Don’t bullshit, just play.

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.

What I learned the most from Prince was putting art first, being creatively ambitious, and putting creativity at the forefront of what I do.

I would’ve loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn’t good enough.

What I’m doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word – I love it.

I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn’t, I don’t really see a point to it.

Jazz has an aesthetic intimacy, a romantic transference.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.

Our music artistry should not be disconnected from our lives or ourselves.