It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name ….
I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it..
Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions..
Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion..
Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial..
Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft..
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day..
Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize..
I've seen Jaws [movie], like, 800 times. And I love it..
I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned..
You're always supposed to have sympathy for the person you're playing. You should be the one person who does..
You can't find what you don't go looking for..
There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought..
I produce music as an apple tree produces apples..
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story..
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music….
If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that..
You have to know composition to be a good improviser..
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. I….
We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from li….
Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though ….