Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.
If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.
You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?
Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.
Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.
It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.
The true artform is being a human being.
It is people's hearts that move the age.
In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.
Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.
Let the music speak for itself.
There are a lot of things I'm proud of, but the proudest have yet to come.
You must own it to play it.
I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.
We might as well swing boys, because Stravinsky cuts us all.
When you sing, always tell the truth.
I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.
The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.
Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.
If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.
What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.
Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.
Once you discover that you can, then you must.
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