I don't think my playing style has really changed over the years; it's just gotten better. I can hear the improvement in comparing older records and …

- Gary Bartz

For an individual fully to play himself, rather than to sound like someone else, is possibly the hardest thing to do.

- Gary Bartz

Lee Morgan used to stand behind me when I was playing a ballad and he'd be hollering, "Play the pretty notes, man, play the pretty notes." I thought …

- Gary Bartz

Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't.

- Gary Bartz

I mean, the piano, of course, but I think the piano should be taught in school just like mathematics, just like reading, writing and arithmetic. I'd …

- Gary Bartz