Anthony Wilson

Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear.

Hot can be cool and cool can be hot and each can be both. But hot or cool man, Jazz is Jazz.

People always ask, “Why jazz?” and I’m like “Why not?” It’s kind of like asking Seurat, “Why so many dots?” I imagine if you asked Bjork, “Why the Tibetan bells?” She’d probably be like “That’s just what I heard.” It’s the same thing. This is just the way I see music.

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.

Know the business; you need to know the business side of things.

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

Never play anything the same way twice.

I’m trying to make music a sensual expression, not and academic experiment.

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that’s when I was born.

Women bring something different to an instrument if they are respectful of their feminine aesthetic.

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

If I don’t practice for a day, I know it… for two days, the critics know it… three days, the public knows it.

I just fell in love with the integrity of the music and that was it.

While many attempts have been made to define Jazz, what’s the point really. Jazz is to be experienced – period.