“ You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. Unknown
“ The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago. Louis Armstrong Trumpeter
“ The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh That filters through the forest, or the gush That swells and sinks amid the branches high,-- 'Tis all the music of the wind, and we Let fancy float on the aeolian breath. John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poet
“ External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument. Yusef Lateef Multi-Instrumentalist
“ The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing. Ralph Ellison Novelist