Jazz is not background music.

- Horace Silver

The ensemble playing is as clean as a whistle. The band plays in tune and with dynamics. Also, there is some fine arranging and orchestrating going o…

- Horace Silver

I may be prejudiced, but I believe that jazz music has the strongest healing potential, and it's not just because I play it and love it so much. I fe…

- Horace Silver

I will search for hidden talents that I didn't know I had and do my best to cultivate them. I am grateful for each day, and I will try to use each da…

- Horace Silver

Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.

- Horace Silver

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

- Horace Silver

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.

- Horace Silver

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. I…

- Horace Silver

Good Lord's been kind to me, that's all I can say. I wake up in the morning with music in my head a lot of times. I won't say every morning, but I wa…

- Horace Silver