In this 2003 interview with R.J. DeLuke for AllAboutJazz.com, pianist Chick Corea laments:
“I see that the world is more turbulent now than it ever was and the music is not reflecting it,” says the composer-pianist. “There was more freedom of expression in the ’60s. There was revolt. There was ‘We want freedom.’ There was Martin Luther King, human rights coming to the fore. Today, a lot of that is under wraps and gone suppressed. So the music we hear is kind of just ‘nice’ music. There’s not a lot of cutting edge music going on, and yet the world is in total turbulence. War is all over the place.”
Also in the interview, Chick discusses his early days as a player, his first breaks, and how blessed he feels to be a musician:
“Being a musician doing what I’m doing at all is like leading a pretty charmed life, traveling around playing the music I love to play – and my own music, mostly, for my whole life. I continue to love doing what I’m doing. To have the friendship and the musical partnership with the greatest musicians alive is, of course, an honor and a great joy each time it happens.”
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