Roy Eldridge

You can cage the singer but not the song.

Live music is best! Make plans to get out and support your local Jazz scene.

Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.

Risk is at the heart of Jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

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

I’ve noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.

Love is sweeping the country.

While many forms of music may use the dynamic of improvisation, Jazz exemplifies the unique characteristic of collective improvisation.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we’ve forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We’ve separated music from life.

Music doesn’t have to hop to be hip, as long as it swings it sings.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

If my own work had more importance than any others, it’s because the piano is the key instrument in music.

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

How are you going to know what’s new to play if you haven’t listened to everything that’s old?

You can’t sing about love unless you know about it.