I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already started play…

- Charlie Byrd

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

- Charlie Byrd

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can

- Charlie Byrd

Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django with an entourage of…

- Charlie Byrd

The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar that matters so much as the music its…

- Charlie Byrd

That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.

- Charlie Byrd

We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.

- Charlie Byrd

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

- Charlie Byrd

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

- Charlie Byrd