Justin Matousek presents Sunday, October 7

its all music – duke ellington

artists can do whatever they want! – marina abramovic

ill play it first and tell you what its called later – miles davis

what we play, is life – louie armstrong

i am the sum total of everything i have experienced musically – hank jones

find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful – vincent van gogh

if only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, that it is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. it is good to lovemany things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done – vincent van gogh

..the best way to know god is to love many things. love a friend, a wife, something, whatever you like.. .but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence… that leads to god, that leads to unwavering faith.. .to give you an example: someone loves rembrandt, but seriously, – that man will know that there is a god, he will surely believe it.. .to try to understand the real significance, of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to god.. – vincent van gogh

draw a straight line and follow it – la monte young

do not be afraid of being wrong; just be afraid of being uninteresting – t. carl whitmer

do not fear mistakes. there are none. – miles davis

don’t play the saxophone. let it play you. – charlie parker

music, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible – a refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all kinds of people can come together, and anything can happen. we are limited only by our imaginations. – bill frisell

seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to god. – lionel hampton

the reward for playing jazz is playing jazz. – john lewis

the spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness. – herbie hancock

there is no such thing as a wrong note. – art tatum

when people believe in boundaries, they become part of them. – don cherry

mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. never try to correct them. on the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. after that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.”

― salvador dali

so little of what could happen does happen.”

― salvador dalí

keep a thing happenin’ all throughout – john coltrane

y e s – yoko ono

i have nothing to say/ and i am saying it/ and that is poetry/ as i need it. – john cage

walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears – pauline oliveros

you know, you don’t see with your eyes

you see with your brain

and the more words your brain has

the more things you can see – krs one

anybody can play. the note is only 20 percent. the attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent – miles davis

no good art no bad art butterfly wings make wind makes oceans move makes mountains smooth vibration is sound sound is vibration brain bursts turn physical to move fingers and windpipes to move minds to move air to move mountains and oceans but process over product no statement but creation practice doesn’t exist sound is vibration is sound molecules always move