Jazz music is the real deal.
Jazz standards are our contribution to music history.
Jazz is not to be sliced into bites by mass marketing geniuses who assume we are mindless cattle.
People who like Jazz feel the depth and soul and intelligence that the music expresses.
Jazz music is our original American culture.
There’s a spiritual satisfaction that one gets from listening and playing good Jazz.
Apparently Jazz is now considered high art and the average person has trouble understanding it.
Jazz can only enhance the Classical side and Classical can only enhance the Jazz side.
Let my children have music.
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking, now heaven knows, anything goes.
I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won’t come out.
Play what you know and then play above that.
The popular song is America’s greatest ambassador.
I thought I had swell ideas and wonderful musicians but no one else did.
We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.
I don’t have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapy is in art.
Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.
Know the business; you need to know the business side of things.
I find my inspiration in myself.
It’s easy in music to tell what’s good. It’s hard to tell what’s bad.
You blows who you is.
The fabulous places I’ve been, wonderful things that’ve happened, great people I’ve met ought to make a story.
