Susannah McCorkle

Tomorrow you’ll wish you had practiced harder today.

The way a band works is a metaphor for all sorts of collaborative and larger enterprises that people do.

As long as musicians have passion for spontaneity and creating something that’s never been before, Jazz will flourish.

When I write songs that touch on social relevance, all you have to do is pick up a newspaper.

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.

I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.

I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

What we hear is the quality of our listening.

For a long time I wasn’t listening to music, to the rock and roll stuff on the radio, because it would cause me to get sweaty–it would bring back memories I didn’t want to know about, or I would get that feeling that I’m not alive ’cause I’m not making it. And if it was good, I hated it ’cause I wasn’t doing it. And if it was bad, I was furious ’cause I could’ve done it better…

Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.

Jazz is a work in progress. We’ll be defining traditions in Jazz for 200-300 years.

If I’m not saying it in four choruses or less, then I’m not saying it.