Steve Kuhn

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

Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

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

I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He’s still a nice young man, only confused.

I guess you can look at me, and tell I’m the old man. My name is BB King.

What’s tied Jazz together is its foundation in the Blues, a reliance on group interplay and the unique phenomenon of spontaneous improvisation.

I’m fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

If you play a tune and a person don’t tap their feet, don’t play the tune.

I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.

Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.

Jazz affirms the noblest aspirations of character, individual discipline, perseverance and innovation.

If you’re gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

Just ’cause I’ve forgotten more than I can play, doesn’t mean it’s not Improv.