says Jackson. ''It's a major part of our cultural landscape. Football comes in the fall, and so does the Coltrane concert. |
says Price. ''He's more than a musician: a spiritual leader, a political leader, and just a leader of human nature around the world. |
All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws. |
I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing . . . the emotional reaction is all that matters as long as there's some feeling of communication, it isn't necessary that it be understood. |
I’ve found you’ve got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light. |
It starts with this group: with McCoy and Elvin and Jimmy Garrison. |
One Down, One Up. |
Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things that he knows of and senses in the universe. . . That’s what I would like to do. I think that’s one of the greatest things you can do in life and we all try to do it in some way. The musician’s is through his music. |
Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I’ll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that’s too bad. |
The first violins have the most interesting part. |
This Half Note material really comes at a summit, ... It's the high point of a sound that the band had been cultivating, basically, since 1961. The music that was recorded there comes at the strongest point of that band, playing that sound. Right after that, they start changing and going other places. |
You can play a shoestring if you're sincere |