"It's natural to give of your gift to other people... The more generous you are, the more you can begin to realize what enlightenment is all about; without that dimension you'll never achieve it. I'm the first to admit that, but I'm always careful."
"The lesson, especially from black musicians in Chicago, was 'Be yourself - don’t copy nobody'. They were really irate. They didn't care how many notes you played or how correct you were in the form or whatever. They really wanted you to be personal."
Happy Birthday Burton Greene
born June 14, 1937
Photo by Lee Santa
"I'm always trying to get different sounds, and different ways of playing the old, tired scenes - like the love scene, the chase or the fight. They're usually done the same way. I try to see them more obliquely."
Henry Mancini
April 16, 1924 - June 14, 1994
"I have a philosophy. I want to move and touch people; I want to remove them from chronological time if possible. And I want to leave them with an afterglow."
Keith Tippett
25 August 1947 - 14 June 2020
"The written leads were the maps into the unexplored, the direction being towards the open, out… We take from one another and give, willingly, unwillingly, knowingly, unknowingly."
Happy Birthday Peter Lemer
born 14 June 1942
Photo uncredited
Patty Waters with Burton Greene (piano), Steve Tintweiss (bass), and Shelly Rusten (drums) at the Woodstock Playhouse in New York, 1966. Photo courtesy of Patty Waters
