7 Quotes by Airto Moreira

I got that same feeling ... the same kind of energy that we created with the original Return to Forever, but now we are more experienced as musicians and as human beings ... so we are much more aware of what we are playing now.

This recording was very special in the sense that I was free to create and play my best. Chick is a very intelligent person and sensitive to people and situations. ... The way he communicates is not going to close your mind, it's going to open your mind.

It's a little more alive, a little more aggressive. The rhythm is stronger and a little bit faster.

The idea is very exciting and I'm really looking forward to playing this music as a trio. It's going to definitely be different ... because of the style that I play which is kind of a Brazilian jazz. Even when I play jazz and live in this country for so long, I didn't lose yet my Brazilian accent when I play and when I talk.

Every time you play you have energy within you - universal energy. That's the energy that keeps everything together - the planets, the galaxies. Everything.

Inspiration is not inside of us. Inspiration comes from outside. It comes from our spiritual guides and from different energies that are in the universe. If we keep in touch with god and our spiritual guides, just knowing that they exist and they are there for us, gives us the strength to say well this is a bad phase but it's going to end and when it ends I'm going to do something good.

Of course, you have to have a good reputation, especially as an artist, as a musician, so that other musicians would like to play with you.