If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.
Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can't take that away. The only person who can take that away from you is you.
The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen.
If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.
All the music you've ever heard in your life is somewhere in your head. I don't reject that, I use it.
I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.
All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
I think music as we know it, is autobiographical.
One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.
You can't sing about love unless you know about it.
A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.
Is jazz a rhythm, or is it a vibration?
I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.
Every ‘mistake’ is an opportunity in jazz.
Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.
Music chooses her musicians.
You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.
Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.
Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.
I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.
If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.
After two takes you're imitating yourself.
We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.
Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.
