Trombone Shorty Quotes

"I'm a big fan of music, I'm a student of music, and I just wanna learn and keep enhancing my education about the music." - Trombone Shorty

source: Interview with NPR (May 2, 2010)

Joe Pass Quotes

"I grew up playing the guitar. I started when I was nine, and by the time I was nine and a half or ten, I was doing seven or eight hours' practice every day. I did two hours' practice at six o'clock in the morning before I went to school, and another two hours as soon as I got home from school in the afternoon. Then I did four hours at night before I went to bed. I did that until I was fourteen or fifteen." - Joe Pass

source: Interview with Guitar Magazine (June, 1974)

Benny Goodman Quotes

"If I have something I want to do, I make a business of doing it." - Benny Goodman

source: Interview with American Heritage Magazine (Oct/Nov, 1981)

Miles Davis Quotes

"I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing." - Miles Davis

source: Interview with Les Tomkins, 1969

Bill Evans Quotes

"I always like people who have developed long and hard, particularly through introspection and a lot of dedication. I think that what they arrive at is usually...deeper and more beautiful...than the person who seems to have that ability and fluidity from the beginning. I say this because it's a good message to give to young talents who feel as I used to. You hear musicians playing with great fluidity and complete conception early on, and you don't have that ability. I didn't. I had to know what I was doing. And ultimately it turned out that these people weren't able to carry their thing very far. I found myself being more attracted to artists who have developed through the years and become better and deeper musicians. I believe in things that are developed through hard work." - Bill Evans

source: 'Metaphors for the Musician' by Randy Halberstadt.

Sonny Rollins Quotes

"One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music. That was his reason for being alive. Nothing else mattered except music, really." - Sonny Rollins

Stan Getz Quotes

"When I got this saxophone, it became a religion. There wasn't TV, there wasn't much money, and there was just a real dedication.... I never thought of it as an art. It was just work that I loved. Not just work, but work that I loved. I loved it so much, I would play it if nobody listened to it. Any jazz musician, if there's nobody around to listen, would play just for the sheer joy of improvising music." - Stan Getz

Jay McShann Quotes

"We didn't let a night go by that we didn't play." - Jay McShann

Bill Evans Quotes

"I believe in things that are developed through hard work. I always like people who have developed long and hard, especially through introspection and a lot of dedication. I think what they arrive at is usually a much deeper and more beautiful thing than the person who seems to have that ability and fluidity from the beginning. I say this because it's a good message to give to young talents who feel as I used to." - Bill Evans

Cab Calloway Quotes

"We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough." -Cab Calloway