In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who we were trying to touch. I t….
Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself..
It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding..
Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the….
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours..
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music..
Musicians should never forget that we're blessed. We have a special gift that people can enjoy through us. We've had the good fortune to receive this….
My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever..
Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture ….
Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going..
Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors... Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and r….
In the phusical sense, 'playing a fret less instrument in tune' is an impossibility. Hence what we call 'playing in tune' is no more than an extreme….
Sometimes I see players that think, and you can tell they're thinking of the next phrase to play or the next thing to do, the next little cute trick,….
Michael Bloomfields' musical understanding was broad and deep, and he knew how to turn that understanding into communication .. his influence was phe….
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not solois….
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….
If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music..
Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're r….
Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever..
There is something in the spirit of song...that fires the soul in a way that it can't otherwise be touched or fired..
In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if y….