I think, fundamentally, music is something inherently people love and need and relate to, and a lot of what's out right now feels like McDonalds. It'….
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary..
Sound is the first thing that we tune into..
I don't act to live. I live to act..
Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious..
It's a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it's a privilege to have an audience. Respect that..
Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes..
Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings..
Now is the only thing that exists..
[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment..
I always wear make-up as I've never seen the point of looking less than your best..
To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy..
I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking..
His very foot has music in 't As he comes up the stairs..
A woman who is loved always has success..
I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?.
I'm not a star. I'm just backing up the cats..
When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us..
It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after..
Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity..
Jazz is about being in the moment..