“If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up.” — Dexter Gordon Quote

“If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up.”

“Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.”

“What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.”

“I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.”

“Rip Rig + Panic that I joined, they were really influenced by jazz and blues and punk. So I think what happened from punk, which was kind of DIY, was that it created a kind of creative place that was kind of without limits, in a way.”

“Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.”