Mark Murphy

My singing evolved with a feeling of intense relaxation, always using my diaphram and breathing specifically through my nose.

I didn’t get my music together until I was 40.

Get around, be on the scene, play it clean, be seen, be keen and be over eighteen.

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

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

Inspiration grows into full-scale creation through persistence and imagination.

People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio.

It’s always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she’s the same old broad.

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

I’m trying to make music a sensual expression, not and academic experiment.

Master your instrument, master the music and then forget all that and just play.

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

If you can’t play the blues, you might as well hang it up.

It’s the group sound that’s important, even when you’re playing a solo. 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 you sing, always tell the truth.

To imitate someone is to insult them.

To keep creating you have to be about change.