top of page
.png){kind=small}
"It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz."
Standard
Customized
More
"Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived."
Author Name
Personal Development
"My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I listen to jazz and gospel... yeah that's basically what I listen to."
Author Name
Personal Development
"To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues."
Author Name
Personal Development
"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom."
Wisdom
"I try to practice with my life."
Life
"When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best."
Time
"Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music."
Music
"I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music."
Music
"Music happens to be an art form that transcends language."
Art
"The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way."
Music
"But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father."
Father
"Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me."
Impression
"I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn."
Beauty
bottom of page