Wes Montgomery

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.

To me, the guitar cuts through. It carries more than the organ, but the organ has got more guts.

I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat.

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

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

When you are studying Jazz best thing to do is listen to records and live music as much you can and absorb everything.

We might as well swing boys, because Stravinsky cuts us all.

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I’ll keep playing until I feel like I can’t.

The weird thing about bass is the simplest stuff to do is the hardest.

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

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.

She’s Dynamite’ was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n’ roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n’ roll.

Jazz never ends… it just continues.

I have music inside me and I’m very lucky to be able to play music and that’s the way that I try to do it.

Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won’t do much because of my age.

Always keep reaching.

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we’re there to make converts.

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.