You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.

Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration.