32 Quotes by Bill Frisell

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.

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

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

I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.

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

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

I'm basically a pretty shy person and I don't dance or get into fights. But there are all these things inside me that get out when I perform. It's like a real world when I play, here I can do all the things that I can't do in real life.

For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being - old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.

I used to edit myself. If something seemed super-simple I had to make it more complicated. Now I'm trying to let what's in there come out and acknowledge where I come from. I'm trying to make it more. ..true.