Love is sweeping the country.
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don’t know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.
There’s a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.
New artists can own their content and completely build their base and their following without having to sell or be owned by anybody and it creates such a diversity.
In order to be honest with myself, I have to reveal more of who I am. This is a part of the improv process.
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.
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
Black and white players hadn’t appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.
Jazz isn’t a what, it’s a how.
There’s always this sound out there that’s just a little beyond my reach and that just sort of keeps me going.
Love songs last because they are about feelings that don’t change.
There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
We’re more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don’t know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’.
Musicians need to continue higher learning try to expand the pallet.
I could write six songs in one day with everything that’s going on.
