MJF's Interview with
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN
Artists Who Influenced
Big Bill Broonzy
"Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things." - Big Bill Broonzy
Little Walter
"I just liked the sound of it, but what really made me choose it (the harmonica), was that most of the kids and my mother too, tried to dissuade me from playing it." - Little Walter
Muddy Waters
"Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice." - Muddy Waters
Ravi Shankar
"In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God." - Ravi Shankar
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Bill Evans
"Intuition has to lead knowledge, but it can't be out there alone." - Bill Evans
John Coltrane
"When there's something we think could be better, we must make an effort." - John Coltrane
Recommended Recordings
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