Barry: I wanna date a musician. Rob Gordon: I wanna live with a musician. She'd write songs at home and ask me what I thought of them, and maybe even include one of our little private jokes in the liner notes. Barry: Maybe a little picture of me in t...
To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.
I've made a life and career as a professional musician.
We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.
As a musician usually music is your way out.
What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.
New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is.
One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.
If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.
Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.
I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.
I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.
When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.
I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.
I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.
That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.
