Bill Charlap

Gershwin was right in his time, at his time. Everybody else was behind.

Music is to the soul what water is to the body.

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you’re really interested in it.

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

I feel I have only scratched the surface of what I know I am capable of doing.

I have always seen Jazz as innovative.

I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That’s the point now isn’t it?

I like jazz, rock n’ roll, some hip hop – I can’t think of any music I don’t like.

What I’m doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word – I love it.

If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.

If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet. If you feel like clapping your hands, clap your hands. And if you feel like taking off your shoes, take off your shoes. We are here to have a ball. So we want you to leave your worldly troubles outside and come in here and swing.

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

If you must listen to bad music, please use headphones.

There’s millions and millions of people who think Les Paul is a guitar!