Cecile McLorin Salvant Quotes

I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. The first time I listened to jazz, he gave me a Thelonious Monk record. It was so different from anything I had ever heard. It took me a while to understand it, and I liked that. I liked the fact that it wasn't immediately palatable.

If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.

I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.

I was 16 years old, and I was just flailing around, looking for an interest. I heard, you know, these jazz records. They were modern records, at the time in the '50s, and I realized that I didn't fully get what was going on. But I liked a lot of what I heard.

I have a secret love of jazz.

Music is not a sport - one is not better than the other. You just like what you like and get inspired.

If it's got the feeling, if the music moves you or not, it doesn't matter what the genre is to me.

Most people who ask me what's my favorite song, expect that it's 'Midnight Train' or 'Neither One of Us.' But actually, it's always kinda been 'The Need to Be' because of what it says. I love the way that song was written, I love the melody, I love everything about it.

Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.

Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was working for you at one point, something you've loved for years and years, when you get together with everybody, you think, this doesn't match up with what's going on with you personally.

I don't much like 'Wonderwall,' but the effect that song has on people, I can't deny it.

I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.

I like any music I can feel.

When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time.

Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

I think 'Invisible' is a great song, but I don't know how accessible it is.

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.

It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it's the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me.

Me personally, I think all the barriers that are put up between genres are so easily broken. People just love music that moves them.

As I've gotten older, my love for jazz has increased.

I can't choose a favorite musician, because I love music so much that whatever/whomever I'm listening to at that moment is my favorite.

A lot of the music that I really love, and a lot of my favourite music and a lot of my favourite things and a lot of my favourite people, these can be experienced on many levels.

I love music, and I got an ear for it.