Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.
And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.
My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.
One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change. . . is that I really need to go home and practice.
Listening is the key to everything good in music.
Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.
People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
I don't want to speak to two empty chairs.
At least in a race you have mile markers and know how long you have to go. Labor is like running as hard as you can without knowing where the finish line is.
He comes off a little like Practical Pig in The Three Little Pigs.