It’s either hip or it ain’t.
There are no natural barriers. It’s all music.
Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking… The new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
Ideologies separate us. Art brings us together.
[In 1972] At the moment, we’re getting the same thrill from seeing the Eagles, Jackson Browne, Jo Jo Gunne, and Judee Sill happen It’s as hard to do it with Jackson Browne as it was to do it with Joni five years ago.
Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of half-fast.
If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!
It’s not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.
Jazz music is collective creativity.
Listening is the key to everything good in music.
We quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
When you listen to a pianist, each notes should have an identity, each note should have a soul of its own.
If you’ve only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.
Start well and end well. The middle will look after itself.
I’m meant to be an artist who can stand on my own. That’s my place; that’s what I’m supposed to do.
