Bill Frisell Quotes

There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.

Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.

Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I've been with all along, that's where I really learn.

To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.

First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.

I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody else plays it and they're hearing something other than what I'm hearing.

I do know the older I get, the more I'm referencing music I heard as a kid.

I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each other when we play.