Learn early, learn often..
A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music..
Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function..
Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle se….
I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks..
Amazing uke playing to be relished..
Change is as good as a rest. It keeps me fresh..
Respect the old, but seek out the new..
Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too..
You cannot kill what you did NOT create.
I never thought of myself as a writer..
Not to deny that it is a thinking people's music, but when I listen to music if I ever catch myself thinking, I'm in trouble--I know something is wro….
Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expressi….
I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less..
Kind words are the music of the world..
They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds..
These is old blues / and I sing em like any woman do. / These the old blues / and I sing em, sing em, sing em. Just like any woman do. / My life ain'….
There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste..
Last night at Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost..
The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a basis of historical con….
My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company..