“I’m not a jazz singer.”

I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn’t interested.

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It’s not a style that’s difficult to pick up. It’s purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM

I’ve been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.

Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you’re the soloist, it’s you, and we follow you. We follow you.

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists.

I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.