Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live..

The better it gets, the fewer of us know it..

When I heard Apache by the Shadows, that was it ! ...then there was a guitar player named Steve Gordon, he was "the player" in town ... I still remem….

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead..

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it..

All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive..

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying….

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles..

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide..

Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, wh….

The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with rel….

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory..

Good music always defeats bad luck.

I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His music sounds like a ….

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz..

I don't think I'm ready for New York..

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state..

A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O..

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying s….

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong..

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect..