People don’t understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
Music Quotes
My biggest kick in music – playing or writing – is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?
It’s nonsense to talk so much about being faithful to the ideals of one’s youth. There is room for development surely. I have always felt happiest in life when I thought I had added if only a little to the ideals of my youth. What is life more than a struggle for the realization truths? […]
No two people on earth are alike, and it’s got to be that way in music, or it isn’t music.
Playing ‘Bop’ is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
I joined Count Basie’s band to make a little money and see the world. For almost two years I didn’t see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.
Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.
Daddy Frank played the guitar and the French harp Sister played the ringin’ tambourine mama couldn’t hear our pretty music; She read our lips and helped the family sing. That little band was all a part of livin’ And our only means of livin’ at the time. It wasn’t like no normal family combo ’cause […]
If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you’re crazy. It can fix you so you […]
