It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.

In them days I just as soon died -- except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.

If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.

If talk was money, you'd be a millionaire. If thoughts could kill, there'd be no one here.

Just because you see bad contents in few pages of the bookIt doesn't mean the whole contents in that book are bad too

you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

Being in the wrong place never helps you do the right thing

I suspect that a lot of the stress we see around us arises from the cognitive dissonance set up by one side of the brain hearing very plausible spin while the other side knows it just ain't so.

You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead.

The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on tactics.

One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.

To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.