Carol King

Jazz music is a special skill that has brought pleasure to millions throughout the world.

It’s difficult for me to dislike an artist, no matter what he’s creating.

All of the technique doesn’t matter… only if the feeling is right.

Don’t say Aretha is making a comeback, because I’ve never been away!

[on Django Reinhardt] By far the most astonishing guitar player ever … Django was quite superhuman, there’s nothing normal about him as a person or a player

I don’t want to sing anything that doesn’t come real.

Dog spelled backward is God. That’s pretty heavy.

Miles’ sessions were not typical of anybody else’s sessions. They were totally unique.

I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands …If they act too hip, you know they can’t play shit.

Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness.

In order to complete your cycle, a musician needs to write; document what is going through your mind and where you are harmonically, theoretically, historically.

Musicians need to continue higher learning try to expand the pallet.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

As a young cellist I had played to an audience that had included Pablo Casals and reacted with poor, nervous playing. Casals sought me out after the concert and praised me highly, somewhat easing the pain and thinking him a very kind man.

One of the problems of people who live with pain is that they spend the whole day thinking about it, and it’s exasperating. But even when I am having a bad moment and I can’t get myself together, I get on stage and for an hour or two the pain becomes super-small. It’s about controlling the mind, telling the pain to step aside. Music does that. It’s the most fantastic drug in the world.