“Music should never be harmless.” (Robbie Robertson)
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“My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often—in fact, mostly—at the expense of everything else in my life.” (Stan Getz)
“It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.” (Dizzy Gillespie)
“Well, if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn’t play like Wynton.” (Chet Baker)
“I never practice guitar … from time to time, I just open my guitar case and throw in a piece of raw meat.” (Wes Montgomery)
“I kept thinking there’s bound to be something else. I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn’t play it.” (Charlie Parker)
“I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.” (Paul Desmond)
“The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats. Of course you have to start out playing like someone else. You have a model, or a teacher, and you learn all that he can show you. But then you start playing for yourself. Show them that you’re an individual. And I can count those who are doing that today on the fingers of one hand.” (Lester Young)