They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance..
I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds..
I hold my time with the Black Crowes with the utmost respect and sincerest appreciation. It is a huge swath of my life’s body of work. I couldn’t be ….
Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear..
I get way down in the music / Down inside the music..
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously..
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted..
It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best..
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand..
The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving..
I don't know whether it was his (Charlie Christian's) melodic lines, his sound or his approach, but I hadn't heard anything like that before. He soun….
The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story..
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger..
Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going..
An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself..
When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang up where they walked. The inse….
Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity..
My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me..
Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America..
Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong..
Music tells no truths..