Paul Kreibich

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

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

Jazz music is the real deal.

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

Jazz standards are our contribution to music history.

Jazz music is our original American culture.

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother’s aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

There’s always this sound out there that’s just a little beyond my reach and that just sort of keeps me going.

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

Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

I do the best I can with any instrument I get attracted to. But they’re just tools in order for you to express yourself and that’s really the upshot of it.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

Even if people don’t understand the language that you’re singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

Your accompanist has a lot to do with how you sing, so experiment and choose your partner wisely.

Man, if you gotta ask you’ll never know.

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.

The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

Ahhh – those Jazz guys are just makin’ that stuff up!

For most dates I was paid the sum of $1 per hr and they always tipped me at the end of the night.

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.