Pat Martino famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.
There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.
We must be as pure as our music.
If people don't like my music now, they will.
I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.
I would say that jazz is my own language.
I was totally into jazz in my teens.
I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

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