Slash Quotes

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

I think we need to think of lots of ways to communicate. And we tried some at 350. We organised what they called the largest art project in the planet's history. We do a lot with art and music and things.

Jazz is my adventure.

I was the audience he wanted to reach. Gram Parsons' writing brought his own personal generations poetry and vision into the very traditional format of country music, and he came up with something completely different

Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.

On set, the playground for the character, how much it takes varies. Is it like ballet, is it like jazz? The content always lends itself to the form, and it's really not mathematics.

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

Music and acting are the most prominent. But I don't like to compare them, since they're both very, very important to me.

Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.

Music and movie scripts are books. You want to be literally moved and that's the sort of things I look for.

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

Music is interior decoration.

Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?

Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.

I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing.

The whole Beatle thing was just beyond comprehension. When 'Help' came out, I was actually crying out for help. Most people think it's just a fast rock 'n roll song. I didn't realize it at the time; I just wrote the song because I was commissioned to write it for the movie. But later, I knew I really was crying out for help.

Paul Robeson once said that the artist has the responsibility to either help liberate the community or further oppress it. And I think that when Eldridge Cleaver wrote it down it was interpreted as his, but there's a history of people saying things of that nature and meaning it. And what I do is in that tradition, in that mode.

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.