I was a time bomb waiting to detonate, burned out, sick of the music business, out of touch with everything and heavily abusing various substances, d…

- Charles Lloyd

My music, it breathes. It's the mysticism of sound. I'm a sound seeker, and I'm enthralled with it, by what it can do to change the molecules and upl…

- Charles Lloyd

Tim Price is truly blessed - he plays music because he loves it.

- Charles Lloyd

I think when you love music, you love a lot of it. Now when it comes to jazz, it's very much in the hyperions of height. You go exploring every night.

- Charles Lloyd

[Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people lay out the carpet…

- Charles Lloyd

I was born in Memphis. There was music all around me, really deep and special music. I heard all these great masters at a young age.There was a great…

- Charles Lloyd

The youngster in me is still alive and kicking. I was infected by music at a very young age, so it's always kept me younger than springtime.

- Charles Lloyd

I think that music makers just really bless the planet.

- Charles Lloyd

I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all these great musicians would come throu…

- Charles Lloyd