Katie Greenwood

The piano ain’t got no wrong notes.

The Blues and Jazz will live forever. So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

It’s not what they think, it’s about what’s best for the music.

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other’s ideas.

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I’ll fit whatever I’m trying to say around a melody.

Music is a calling that you must bring your best to, whether listening, practicing or performing.

I don’t try to please when I play. I try to cure.

Joe’s been my drummer for 14 years, and we’ve been buddies for six years.

Jazz is all about improvisation and it’s about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you’ll never do it this way twice. I’ve studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.

Jazz is a complete lifestyle, something that you feel, something that you live.

A Les Paul feels like a guitar and I play differently on that and I sound too much like someone else.

You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That’s jazz.

When I started playing, I was playing just the harmonica. We’re back in the prohibition days. Like down a dark alley somewhere, you’d play for an illegal club that was probably right behind a police station, and what I’d do is sing and play the harmonica. It didn’t take me long to work out that I needed something more, and that was the guitar. So when you added the guitar, the harmonica and my voice, you would be talking with people mainly in the bar, or in the restaurant, or the people in the pub.

You get that right tickin’ rhythm, man and its ON!

I’ve had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.