13 Quotes by Charlie Byrd

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can

That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.

We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.

I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already started playing that music, and the audience response had been pretty good because those songs are so melodic. I knew it would be something that would be appealing; I wasn't thinking that it would make the top of the pop charts or anything like that.

The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar that matters so much as the music itself. But the guitar is the vehicle I use. It's how I express myself. As for the emotional side, music takes up where language leaves off. To try and verbalize what music says, emotionally and spiritually, is futile. Let me put it this way, Louis Armstrong once said if you've got to ask, you'll never know.

Music’s not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.