Musician Quotes

They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind.
To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.
We played for peanuts. But we did what we wanted to do, we heard what we wanted to hear, we performed what we wanted to perform, we learned what we wanted to learn.
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.
When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.
When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.
When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.
Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.
You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.
You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good.
You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.
I reached the stage where I was afraid to wiggle my leg, but then I thought 'why shouldn't I?' It's what I do and now I know how to turn an audience on again.
People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about.
We owe America something because they turned us into a touring band. But at least we feel confident about appearing in Britain again now. Hyde park was the first time over here for ages.
When we first went there we completely lacked confidence. Our manager told us our act was too long, and told us to drop certain numbers and concentrate on the exciting stuff. And he was right.
The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.
There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help.
There's always a price for what you want.
I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.
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