If you're genuinely candid and expressive then you're never wrong, even when you are wrong.

- Gary Giddins

You've got to have a gimmick if your band sucks.

- Gary Giddins

I never really wanted to be a daily critic who goes out every night and writes 300 word reviews, I wanted to write essays. And that gave me the luxur…

- Gary Giddins

I am astounded at my age with a 20-year-old daughter to discover that kids of her generation don't want to watch black and white movies. I understand…

- Gary Giddins

If I'm reviewing a record, man, I play that record to death, which is ironic in a way because if I review a concert I feel very confident in myself, …

- Gary Giddins

Bing Crosby said that Armstrong is "the beginning and the end of music in America," and he wasn't far wrong.

- Gary Giddins

There are reviews that are clearly wrong. Dr. Johnson's famous Life of Savage, he's clearly wrong about the value of Savage. But it's one of the grea…

- Gary Giddins

Even my colleagues don't read classic criticism. And my feeling is that if you don't do that then you're not really practicing your craft. That's how…

- Gary Giddins

I think all of us begin as writers. I wanted to be a writer from the time I as eight, long before I heard of jazz. The question is, once you have tha…

- Gary Giddins