“Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.” Quote by Gerry Mulligan
“We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.” TryingMindDifferentChanceMusicJazzMusicalSomething NewVentureTake A Chance Author:Horace Silver
“I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space.” WorldWantPlaySpaceMusicDrawsJazzMusical Author:Jimi Hendrix
“Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.” PlayEmotionMusicPlayerJazzGuitarMusicalGuitar Player Author:Jimi Hendrix
“Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's sort of like the foundation to a building.” WantPersonsSoulPlayMusicBuildingFoundationJazzMusicalLifts Author:Jimmy Rushing
“The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.” PeopleMadePlayMusicMusicianJazzMusicalHardestRhythmSectionsHardest ThingRhythm Section Author:Jo Jones
“If you're going to make a mistake, make it loud so everybody else sounds wrong.” IfsSoundMistakeMusicJazzMusicalLoud Author:Giuseppe Venuti
“Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad.” IfsKnowsFeelsFirstsSometimesWishWalksMusicHeardFirst TimeJazzMusicalListenersJazz Music Author:John Coltrane
“Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.” MenBigsStrongWomenOpinionWonderfulProfessorsStrong WomenWonderful Woman Author:Coco Chanel
“When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.” PeopleDesireMusicPossibilityMusicianJazzMusicalJazz Musician Author:John Coltrane