I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all thos….
My aim is just to make good music every single time..
I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make..
There was passion, there was laughter The first morning after I just couldn't get my feet to touch the ground Everytime we were together We talke….
Obviously I want my music on the radio and I want my record to do well, but I also have a totally different career, so a lot of people who are in mus….
When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult..
The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course..
In 1968 I ran into Steve Lacy on the street in Rome. I took out my pocket tape recorder and asked him to describe in fifteen seconds the difference b….
When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely.
the one universal form of art is music..
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity..
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you..
Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat..
All music is important if it comes from the heart..
There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and ins….
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they….
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz..
I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the c….
All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off..
I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did..
At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able to pick out a few tunes? I also learned the names of t….