John Abercrombie Quotes
- As Eric Dolphy said 'Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone'. And that's true. But when you record it, it comes…
- To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.
- Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to…
- If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.
- Schlepping all of the equipment is the part I hate more than anything.
- Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn…
- On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio…
- I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the…
- You're just sort of searching for this hing and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since…