Roy Eldridge

If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet.

It bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It’s not. It’s feeling.

There’s only one bass player in a band. I’m the best bass player of any band I’m in.

You can cage the singer but not the song.

There’s a lot of recreational Jazz going on, where cats learn a particular style and become sharks on somebody else’s language.

I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.

The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain’t no vampire!

Miles Davis and John Coltrane were so cool, if alive today global warming wouldn’t be an issue.

Get around, be on the scene, play it clean, be seen, be keen and be over eighteen.

Play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing even if it does take them 15, 20 years.

If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach.

I like the interplay in the music.

Jazz has an aesthetic intimacy, a romantic transference.

Breathe…. breathe a lot!

Don’t say Aretha is making a comeback, because I’ve never been away!