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…

— 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…

— Bill Frisell

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Bill Frisell

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

— Bill Frisell

There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.

— Bill Frisell

To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

— Bill Frisell

In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument.…

— Bill Frisell

I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of…

— Bill Frisell

I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each…

— Bill Frisell

Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest.…

— Bill Frisell

First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.

— Bill Frisell

It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can…

— Bill Frisell