

Charli Persip - "I like to solo, but I like it to be rhythmic and musical.Art Pepper - "You know, I wanted something more than just being thought of as a musician, period.".Ken Peplowski - "Jazz amounts to Blues, your unique sound and the elusive genius of improvisation.".Nicholas Payton - "Silence is what makes music sexy.Nicholas Payton - "Jazz music is haunted by its own hungry ghosts.".Enos Payne - "Jazz is a feeling more than anything else.".Luciano Pavarotti - "Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.".My secret is to keep going, keep working." Les Paul - "I have younger friends who don't work & they aren't doing so well.Les Paul - "We go in there & we work on altering those ideas & in many cases go in different directions.".John Patitucci - "The two things most important for playing any kind of music are your sound and rhythmic feeling.".Jaco Pastorius - "A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that.Jaco Pastorius - "When you play, you play life.".Joe Pass - "If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.".Joe Pass - "Using drugs didn't help me play, all it did was hang me up for 15 years.".Horace Parlan - "The stress of being in New York takes a toll on musicians, especially Jazz musicians.".Pay was a $1.25 a night but somebody special like Count Basie could command $1.50." Charlie Parker - "In Kansas City joints ran 9pm-5am.If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Charlie Parker - "Music is your experience, your thoughts, your wisdom.But, man, there's no boundary line to art." Charlie Parker - "They teach you there's a boundary line to music.Charlie Parker - "I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.".Charlie Parker - "Master your instrument, master the music & then forget all that & just play.".Charlie Parker - "Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.".

Charlie Parker - "It's not all smoke and mirrors.Charlie Parker - "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.".Charlie Parker - "Don't play the saxophone.Charlie Parker -"You've got to learn your instrument.".Charlie Parker - "I can play all I know in eight bars.".
