American Quotes

People call to keep me abreast of what's going on.

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.

Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it's different from the people you knew before.

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May.

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.

I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone.

I hadn't been practicing or playing or anything. But that had been a vital part of my life.

But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith.

Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.

My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens. We really don't have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm.

Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.

It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million.

It took me 29 years to finish that song. That's a typical Jardine move.

I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world.

I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality.

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

Ideas come through us, not from us.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

Art matters.

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

Imagination needs to be fed.

Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

With publicity comes humiliation.

Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.

On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.