One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen..

Hearing Andres Segovia in person was quite a revelation ... It was a knockout..

Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place..

I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival..

St. John of the Cross points out that the divine music can best be heard in solitude and silence. The sonorous music is not a physical sound that vib….

I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting th….

Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend..

I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir..

So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I….

I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true….

When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebast….

Sweet music! sacred tongue of God..

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that….

When we get to the future, I'll decide the future..

Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret tech….

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians..

Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that we would be able to hear and the….

Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as far surpass anyman's faith in the ….

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known..

The trouble with this country is that everything is new. We don't have any consideration for the past... Just because something is old, you don't jus….

Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions..