D C DowDell

If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time!

Jazz – it takes passion to make it happen!

The true musician plays what he/she hears. That cannot be a mistake.

Jazz improvisation is an elusive genius.

Jazz goes into my coffee in the morning, in my wine at night.

One shouldn’t be in the habit of quoting oneself.

Music should not have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that is required to sound like jazz.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

After the music is over it’s gone in the air. You can never capture it again.

Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won’t do much because of my age.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

There’s always room for improvisation or changes of expression.

Keep on listening and tapping your feet.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

I’d solo on my guitar; then sing; then solo; then sing some more. one stopped when the other started. That way I felt a continuity, not a conflict, like a wheel that keeps turning. Both sounds – guitar and voice – were coming out of me, but they issued from different parts of my soul.

Music is your experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.

Play what you feel, feel what you play.

Music is the great arbiter of the world, the key to central harmony and a necessary requirement of human emotion.

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.

A beat is a moment in the life a groove.

If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach.