“No two people on earth are alike, and it’s got to be that way in music or it isn’t music”
“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
In my music, I’m trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it’s difficult is because I’m changing all the time.
“Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz”
”“The wise musicians are those who play what they can master” Duke Ellington
“I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands …If they act too hip, you know they can’t play shit. ” Miles Davis
“Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music” Nina Simone