Nat Adderley

Breathe…. breathe a lot!

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

All I play is truth and emotion.

Just to keep it interesting I’ll tune the guitar randomly, so I don’t know what’s going to come out.

There’s always room for improvisation or changes of expression.

If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it again.

Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens.

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

Ideologies separate us. Art brings us together.

Jazz has such great feeling and emotional content it really doesn’t require technical understanding.

One shouldn’t be in the habit of quoting oneself.

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.

I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

Look for the one who’s not smiling and play to that person. Once you’ve got that person, you’ve got the whole club.