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.

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.

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.

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

Choosing battle is one thing, and quitting battle is cowardice and I can't imagine doing that

The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.

Tantric Zen is the exploration of everything, since everything is a part of enlightenment.

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.

I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

Look at all the drug busts all over the country. There must be an audience there somewhere. My feeling is that if we're losing the war on drugs, let's do a movie for the enemy.

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.