Charlie Quote by Carlos Santana

My aunt Ruth Brown was a jazz musician. I got hooked on it at a young age, understanding what John Coltrane was doing playing…

— Rakim

The way so many musicians slavishly imitated Coltrane, that's the way it was with Charlie Parker - only even more so, if that can…

— Art Pepper

I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.

— Lee Konitz

When I was a kid, during those days, you couldn't use instruments. It was against the pastor's religion, so all the singers would make…

— Bobby Womack

Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, "Yeah, songwritin' man," looking wistful. That wasn't…

— Alex Turner

I didn't mean for it to cause such a furor, but I was the first guy to ever do the national anthem with a…

— Jose Feliciano

We played, jazz, blues, dixie, and it all came from the church. When I went to church, I would see the sisters and brothers…

— Scatman Crothers

Music is the silence between the notes.

— Claude Debussy

I'm very aware of what, say, electric guitar recordings in the '60s sounded like.

— Rostam Batmanglij

I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I…

— Bobby Keys

The thing about Led Zeppelin was that it was always four musicians at the top of their game, but they could play like a…

— Jimmy Page

When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was,…

— B. B. King