Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind..
There is no art without intention..
Gray skies are just clouds passing over..
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind..
For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source.
I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance..
My number one goal ... is to preserve the music industry. The only answer is the Internet. ...none of the systems are more effective than having a pe….
Music keeps time and defies time, simultaneously..
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide..
Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star..
The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz..
If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it..
I expect the audience to come up to my level..
What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it..
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition..
If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!.
If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up..
Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people..
Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity ….
Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The ….
For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening..