Elvin Jones Quotes
- You should get the feeling you should move. That's what is meant when people say the music moves me.
- It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only…
- Music is a way of life, it's everything. I play drums and that's what I believe I was born to do.
- To me John Coltrane was like an angel on earth. He struck me that deeply.
- If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come…
- I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting.…
- The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the ensemble who, instead…
- I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe…