It’s a constant challenge to get your arrangement and musical expression across to a new audience, especially when you’re playing live every night like we are. Chick Corea Read Quote
It’s made music more accessible with YouTube and the ability to trade audio files. But it hasn’t made it more popular. Chick Corea Read Quote
I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I’m doing is I’m studying. Chick Corea Read Quote
People in the music business say don’t make too many records because they’ll compete against one another. Chick Corea Read Quote
I came along in the ’60s having absorbed as much as I could up until then and added my own tastes and search into the equation. I guess that’s how I see ‘Now He Sings, Now He Sobs’ in relation to the development of jazz in general. Chick Corea Read Quote
I get interested in the various ways that music is being done in the culture, and some of it I like thoroughly enough to want to learn about it. The way I have been successful at doing that is to become part of it. Chick Corea Read Quote
When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter’s way in a compositional way, there’s a certain arc to that that I love. Chick Corea Read Quote
I like Stevie Wonder as my favorite non-pianist pianist. I mean, I shouldn’t call him a non-pianist, because he’s really a great pianist, but he doesn’t feature it that much – he uses his keyboards and his piano technique to support his great songs and so forth, but he can really blow. Chick Corea Read Quote
You get a zero at the end of your age number, and you get some extra attention. That’s what I found out. Chick Corea Read Quote
