John Coltrane Quotes

"Tone wise, I would like to be able to produce a more beautiful sound, but now I'm primarily interested in trying to work what I have - what I know - down, into a more lyrical line - that's what I mean by beautiful - more lyrical, so it'll be, you know, easily understood." - John Coltrane

source: Interview with Carl-Erik Lindgren (1960)

Don Alias Quotes

"She [Joni Mitchell] wanted to have that (jazz) element in her music. Of course, when she heard Jaco's [Jaco Pastorius'] music and met him, that floored her -- really grabbed her. She decided that Wayne Shorter was really conducive to her music. She would speak metaphorically about things. "I want this to sound like a taxicab driver, or a taxi in New York," or "I want this to sound like a telephone ringing." She would speak to musicians like that, and we really tuned into what she would want our music to be." - Don Alias

source: digitalinterviews.com

Keith Jarrett Quotes

"If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical - some sort of physiological - effect on the listener, so he doesn't have to hear that sound again." - Keith Jarrett

Tom Harrell Quotes

"I try to listen attentively to musical sounds around me. You can think of the sounds of daily life as being musical. So I try to absorb the intricacies of the sounds as I would if I were listening to a piece of music. I try to see the beauty in everything." - Tom Harrell