I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.
Steve Lacy
I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete.
If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.
Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.
When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.
When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.
You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.
I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.
Emeril Lagasse
Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my... →
The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
Karl Lagerfeld