Paul Kreibich

Jazz music is our original American culture.

The expression of freedom that is Jazz improvisation mirrors the ethos of the best parts of society.

Apparently Jazz is now considered high art and the average person has trouble understanding it.

Jazz music is the real deal.

There’s a spiritual satisfaction that one gets from listening and playing good Jazz.

Jazz is not to be sliced into bites by mass marketing geniuses who assume we are mindless cattle.

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

I don’t like to look back because the whole point in Jazz is doing it now.

Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

It’s just exciting to be part of something that is brand-new.

I wanna hear myself everywhere

Django Reinhardt was fantastic. he must have been playing all the time to be that good.

It’s not that you want to sing, it’s that you have to sing.

We may not be changing the world dramatically, but we’re improving it one note at a time.

A great teacher stimulates his student’s creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

Sometimes it’s to your advantage for people to think you’re crazy.

Play for the spiritual aspect, the emotion.

If you have something in your life worth celebrating, you can put it in a blues song.

Count don’t do nothin’. But it sure sounds good.

Whenever I fill out the job description I put ‘songwriter’, never ‘singer’ or ‘artist.’ Singers come and go.