Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician.

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.

I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who arent exposed to creative music.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them.

Chris (Anderson) is risking his life with every chord, that's how much it means to him. He has such a reverence for beauty, he plays like an angel.

Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

In greatness, life and death merge.

True freedom is a mental condition that no one can take or give to you.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.

Talented men are not threatened by talented women. They welcome them. And same way with real men.

I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.

I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.

We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.

This country maintains that there is no political prisoners, that everybody is criminals, but it's just not true.

Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.