“I may be prejudiced, but I believe that jazz music has the strongest healing potential, and it's not just because I play it and love it so much. I feel that it's the improvisation in jazz that makes it so strong as a healing tool, what each individual gives to a tune from their heart and their soul when they take a solo. It's all spontaneous, and it's all love, and from the heart.” GivingFeelsBelieveHeartMaySoulPlayIndividualStrongI BelieveHealingToolsAnd LoveJazzTunesStrongestSoloSpontaneousJazz MusicImprovisation Author:Horace Silver
“I've found in composing that being simple and profound—having in-depthness in your music—is the most difficult thing to do. Anybody can write a whole lot of notes, which may or may not say something . . . But why make it complicated for the musicians to play? Why make it difficult for the listeners to hear?” WritingMayPlayWholeFoundDifficultSimpleMusicianMusic IsNotesProfoundComplicatedThings To DoListenersDifficult ThingsComposing Author:Horace Silver
