Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz..
Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life..
I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out..
The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it'….
A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insa….
The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul..
There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weir….
A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas..
There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and music gathering those are the instru….
I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no….
The popular song is America's greatest ambassador..
But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?.
I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project..
I'm just trying to unite the western crowd and the bluegrass crowd a little more. ... I get to do that again on my new album, Tall Grass and Cool Wat….
People listen to the music and sense what it is about. Sometimes they know exactly what the songs are about, sometimes they interpret their own meani….
By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in..
I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's likeable, someone liked the sound, then fine, bu….
I find that in California I can't find guys that have enough energy. They play a little bit and that's about it. They play less. If I start a tune an….
[John Coltrane] liked my qualities as a person and that's the reason why he let me play with him. It wasn't what I was doing musically or my instrume….
I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer..
Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies..