Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has …

- Bill Frisell

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

- Bill Frisell

Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I've been with all along, that's where I really learn.

- Bill Frisell

I'm basically a pretty shy person and I don't dance or get into fights. But there are all these things inside me that get out when I perform. It's li…

- Bill Frisell

I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated …

- Bill Frisell

It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.

- Bill Frisell

I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispa…

- Bill Frisell

In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument. There's always this sound out there that's just…

- Bill Frisell

For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being - old guys and young…

- Bill Frisell