Glen Campbell Quotes

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.

People think jazz music is all standards and the Great American Songbook. But it's really about the sensibility, the feel you bring to the music.

Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in the music. In jazz, everyone's improvising, and everyone's creating at the same time.

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.

I think that's what I love about jazz is that you can do what you want, and you're allowed to mess up.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.

I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal.

I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are a very few genres that I haven't tried out, really, in what I've been doing. As a jazz musician, you can kind of mess about with things with a certain level of musicianship, which helps.

I don't know any jazz stuff. I don't know how to jam in that way. So jamming, for me, is writing a tune.

'Black Radio' was pretty much a jam session.

I love jazz and blues, where there's a structure, but a lot of the cool stuff is veering off the page and playing.

What I love about jazz is the improvisation, the fact that you never know what's going to happen next.

For me, jazz offers so much freedom in the way the music can be interpreted. It's natural to me. It's where I feel most free.

I think of jazz as being homage through innovation. Don't quote that as a definition, but it comes pretty close.

'Kind of Blue' is one of the best records of all time. Miles' use of space is something rap fans can definitely appreciate. Sometimes you have to let the track breathe and throw a melody in here and there. He never did too much on 'Kind of Blue.' It's the perfect vibe.

I've always gravitated toward technical music in general. I love jazz fusion.

I just really liked those trumpets and horns - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - and I honed in on that. I always looked for those big horn lines.

Joseph Zawinul and Toots Thielmans, in my opinion, are the only Europeans who can play rhythm-and-blues.