The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

- Ahmad Jamal

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European clas…

- Ahmad Jamal

You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forge…

- Ahmad Jamal

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

- Ahmad Jamal

Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background.

- Ahmad Jamal

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

- Ahmad Jamal

I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.

- Ahmad Jamal