3 Quotes by Gary Bartz

Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won’t.

Lee Morgan used to stand behind me when I was playing a ballad and he’d be hollering, “Play the pretty notes, man, play the pretty notes.” I thought I was playing the pretty notes, but you know, things like that help you to reach a little further.

For an individual fully to play himself, rather than to sound like someone else, is possibly the hardest thing to do.