Lucky Thompson

I feel I have only scratched the surface of what I know I am capable of doing.

I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat.

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

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

How can I turn emotion into knowledge? That’s what I try to do with my horn.

Man, you tell a story.

Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won’t do much because of my age.

The audience, they’re not professionals. They just love music. It isn’t necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

You only get better by playing.

All music is beautiful.

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

I’m not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I’m not thinking about anything other than – I’m just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I’m just going to do it.

For me, I started on a Les Paul and went through years of playing other guitars and just came back full circle to what was more natural to me.

Play the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you play.