“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”
“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 !
Well if I could play like Wynton (Marsalis), I wouldn’t play like Wynton.”
“Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating” Lionel Hampton