“I don't know that many chords. I'd be loaded if I knew that many. But that's not my aim. My aim is to move from one vein to the other without any trouble. The biggest thing to me is keeping a feeling, regardless what you play. So many cats lose their feeling at various times, not through the whole tune, but at various times, and it causes them to have to build up and drop down, and you can feel it.”
Wes Montgomery
“Playing octaves was just a coincidence. And it's still such a challenge, like chord versions, block chords like cats play on piano. There are a lot of things that can be done with it, but each is a field of its own. I used to have headaches every time I played octaves, because it was extra strain, but the minute I'd quit I'd be all right. But now I don't have headaches when I play octaves.”
“This was put together not just as a series of notes and chords. If I depended on what anyone else thinks, I never would have stretched and discovered the various dimensions of myself.”
Herbie Hancock
“I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.”
Charlie Parker
“The program struck a chord, so we just kept expanding it.”
Kelly Parisi
“Vibrating my vocal chords and producing multiple overtones with deep sounds while chanting the mantras is my specialty in the album. We did some over-dubbing so as to give the feel that the mantras are being chanted by a huge group of people.”
Ngawang Tashi Bapu
“It clearly has struck a chord.”
Alan Hedge
