A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you….
Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman..
My audience has developed so that they come to listen and are quiet, Thus I can work in a limited volume range and explore all the subtleties that ca….
No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery..
The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air..
Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world..
Keep on listening & tapping your feet..
Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues..
If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune..
If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art..
Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking….
Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music..
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts..
A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out..
The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely ….
From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code..
Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear..
I'll quote the truth wherever I find it thank you..
You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a d….
Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice..
If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical langu….