Richie Sambora

Jazz improvisation is an elusive genius.

I don’t consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can’t develop any further.

Just because I’m playing Jazz I don’t forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through Jazz.

If your dreams don’t scare you they’re not big enough!

The spirit of Jazz is the spirit of openness.

You can’t copy anybody and end up with anything. If you copy, you’re working without any real feeling.

You don’t have to live the blues to play the blues.

I’m a musician at heart, I know I’m not really a singer. I couldn’t compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

Any particular style of playing which represents an authentic way of musical feeling is genuine expression.

I’m on some singer’s record date for a demo and I get a note to call Miles Davis. Of course, I didn’t believe it, but I wasn’t going to take a chance by not calling, and it was Miles. He said, ‘I’ve got a session in an hour over at Columbia, can you make it’

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.

You blows who you is.

I like jazz, rock n’ roll, some hip hop – I can’t think of any music I don’t like.

Risk is at the heart of Jazz. Every note we play is a risk.