The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can..
I love you so, But why I love you, I'll never know..
Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind….
Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that wa….
As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiratio….
I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your field you want to aspire to ….
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know..
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or somethin….
I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the ree….
These are not necessarily our agendas, but we feel a part of what a performer is, and what a performer has to say is more than just words and music..
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness..
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 can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may..
And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was ….
If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public k….
If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll..
Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like half-fast..
Never play anything the same way twice..
A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interpre….
The bar... is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable-and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, ….
i won't be happy until i'm famous like God.