Musician Quotes

We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made and we'll all be cool with it.
We've never been your typical family. We've moved a lot.
You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.
A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.
I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.
I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.
I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.
If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.
Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.
My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.
Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.
The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.
We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.
You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.
You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.
I don't think you can replaces great themes. But I think people do want to hear fresh arrangements of them. They don't want to hear them played the same way all the time.
Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.
Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free.
After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.
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