Conversations Artist Quotes by Ray Conniff

If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.

— Ray Conniff

I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.

— Ray Conniff

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a…

— Ray Conniff

When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.

— Ray Conniff

I didn't get paid. I didn't even care that I didn't get paid.

— Ray Conniff

I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and…

— Ray Conniff

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

— Ray Conniff