Great Quotes
“I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed”
“Musically, I love to talk just off the top of my head & that’s what Jazz is all about.”
“Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental precision that I admire in classical music, but which popular music doesn’t have.”
I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated !
“I’m an interpreter of stories. When I perform it’s like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.”
Well if I could play like Wynton (Marsalis), I wouldn’t play like Wynton.”
“Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating” Lionel Hampton