Patti Scialfa Quotes

I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.

Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live.

I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile.

I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere.

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.

There's a wonderful tradition of jazz people getting on stage and jamming and finding some feeling for music with audiences who may be fresh. For others, it might be just like a comfortable shirt they've been wearing.

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.

The power of live music is vast. Live music is a wonderful way to spend some time.

Jazz onstage is a very intimate exchange between everybody that's onstage.

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

Who knows ... we'll be playing Jazz and having a good time!

We get along, we talk music.Lenny Kravitz took me to Harlem to see this little jazz show in the back of a church. It was just shitty fluorescent lights and a small stage piano, but this band tore it up.

I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as well as everybody else, but all of them were quite brilliant under Miles Davis' direction.

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

Music is the emotional life of most people.

I just loved working with George Benson, whom I very much enjoy musically and as a person.

I was three or four, and my mother would have a Bing Crosby record playing through the house. It was my introduction to jazz, harmonies, melodies, musicianship, and emotion.

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.

Jazz has a tradition that has enriched the culture in America. The intellectualism of it does nothing but make you think on a higher level and make you a better person if you engage in the music and let it do what it does when it is played at its highest level.

I love Shostakovich. We were good friends.

It's a beautiful thing to have time in the world, as a singer and as a musician, to make friends with people of the musical caliber of a Tommy Smith, an Arturo Sandoval, a Richard Galliano, a Till Broenner.

I connect better with music when I see the people singing it.

I never knew listening to a song could give you goose bumps and make you cry until I listened to Lauryn Hill.

I like the sounds of real, living, breathing musicians. When a real person plays something, there's a soul. They're giving you their emotions.

Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in the music. In jazz, everyone's improvising, and everyone's creating at the same time.