All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

Learn to deal with the valleys and the hills will take care of themselves.

It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.

If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.

The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

I was always willing to say, "Let's see what happens," when something came up that looked like it might help me get a little closer to where I wanted to be . . .

Keep on listening & tapping your feet.

I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter.

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?

Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation.

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton.

Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you

I had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young.

I don't do the mirror thing; maybe once or twice when I first started out.