Henri Selmer

Play what you feel, feel what you play.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

Jazz music is a language of the emotions.

If you listen to Donny Hathaway, he had a lot of jazz elements in the way he sang, … For me, the two styles borrow from each other so much that sometimes it’s hard for me to make a distinction. When you hear Lalah sing the combination, that’s when she really shines – when she’s allowed to dip into her jazz when she wants to and then get soulful and do the R ‘n’ B thing.

Music is a verb.

Music opens up minds to dream great dreams about where you can go and what you can do.

People love us when we play what we want to play but we’re starving.

Let the music speak for itself.

I started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that’s just the way it came out.

So until we see you again, bright moments and keep searchin’ for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.

It is Jazz’s very nature to change, to develop and adapt to the circumstances of its environment.

When you begin to teach Jazz, the most dangerous thing is to teach style.

Stop before you’re done.

There are times when you want to go where you used to go and you can’t go there. So I’m back to Count Basie lifting his hand. And I find you can stop that show with one note just like you can with a hundred.