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The idea of life is to give and receive.
Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
Jazz will be the classical music of the future.
Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.
Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!
I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.
When I grow up I want to be just like Benny Carter!
The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.
It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.
I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.
Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.
As long as Pete and Joe are there, it's gonna be jumping.
I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman.
The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.
I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change.
I love the Queen. I've had a crush on her since I was eight.
Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.
Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.
Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.
Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.
Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.
You don't gamble to win. You gamble so you can gamble the next day.
Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.
Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.
I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.
One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.
Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.
Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.
Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.
My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.
Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.
I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.
A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.
I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.
I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.
We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.
I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.
There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.
As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.
They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.
'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.
Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.
Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.
Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.