Music making Quotes by Bill Frisell

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

— Bill Frisell

I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music…

— Bill Frisell

Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I've been with all along, that's where I really learn.

— Bill Frisell

I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody else plays…

— Bill Frisell

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.

— Bill Frisell

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar…

— Bill Frisell

I used to edit myself. If something seemed super-simple I had to make it more complicated. Now I'm trying to let what's in there…

— Bill Frisell

I do know the older I get, the more I'm referencing music I heard as a kid.

— Bill Frisell

There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

— Bill Frisell

"Music, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible--a refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all kinds of…

— Bill Frisell

I'm basically a pretty shy person and I don't dance or get into fights. But there are all these things inside me that get…

— Bill Frisell

For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being…

— Bill Frisell