Sammy Nestico

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

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

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

If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I’ve also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

It is people’s hearts that move the age.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

What we hear is the quality of our listening.

And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find.

I love to hear the note sing.

I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!

We usually never got out of there before four or five o’clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

T-Bone was, to me, that sound of being in heaven.

Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you’re going to the bank to borrow money.