D C DowDell

Jazz improvisation is the art of collective negotiated expression.

Hipness is what it is. But sometimes hipness is what it ain’t.

My neighbors always listen to very hip Jazz… whether they like it or not.

The jazziest American contribution to the vocabulary of English is Jazz itself.

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

It’s spontaneity that has always characterized Jazz music’s finest improvisers.

A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don’t do that on stage.

Keep searching for that sound you hear in your head until it becomes a reality.

Jazzmen are our surrogates for the unpredictable, our paladins of constant change.

I don’t like recording studios – except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

Jazz stands for freedom.

There is nothing more stuntastic than rapping in front of an orchestra.

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

It is people’s hearts that move the age.

Life is 10% what you make it and 90% how you take it.

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

Kinship doesn’t come from skin color. It’s in your soul and your mind.

You only go around once and this ain’t no rehearsal.

Blow your life through your horn.

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

What I look for in concert is a connection with the audience.