Cyrille Aimee Quotes

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

I think jazz has given me freedom with my voice.

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

Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.

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

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

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

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

When I worked with my uncle, I loved the fact that jazz music demanded that you use your own unique approach.

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

Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there's a way to do it without it being a jazz record.

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

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.

My music is like my freedom space.

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 put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

This is what really makes real jazz musicians: people coming out with their own voice.

I used to be just a total jazz freak. People used to say, 'Where's the melody? Is there a melody in there anywhere?' Now I let the music follow the song.

To me, that's what music entails. It's freedom, it's having the undeniable confidence to express yourself in a way that you know is right.