Andrew S. Gilbert quotes

“Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.”
-- Andrew S. Gilbert

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“Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has taken the romance a good deal further than most.”
-- Andrew S. Gilbert

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“The jazz guitarist Peter Sprague calls his home recording studio SpragueLand, but sometimes it seems that the moniker better captures the way he has turned the entire southland into his own musical playground. Sprague is a highly versatile musician who draws on the wellsprings of jazz and Brazilian music as primary influences.”
-- Andrew S. Gilbert

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“The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.”

“I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.”

“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.”

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”

“I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.”

“the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.”

“Angelina Jolie is my style inspiration.”

“Jazz is the music of the body.”

“I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.”

“My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.”