David Edwards Quotes

When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records.

My music is jazz.

When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.

My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.

But I don't really listen to much be-bop at all at the moment.

As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.

To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.

Jazz was my first love.

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

Swing is my favorite kind of music.

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings... it's strings that swing. Strings that swing like Dizzy Gillespie... keep swinging, baby. And when you have all of that special excellence of the Metropole Orchestra, then your music just flies - it soars in a way that's really magical.

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz.

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

I find early jazz to be the most revolutionary music of its time.

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

The type of music that I love to sing would have to be more bluesy and jazzy and more soul-like 'cause I love to belt when it comes to singing, so I guess bigger songs are what I lean more towards.

I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one.