Music is the only thing keeping the planet together

Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out.

A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.

The secret to the sound is to drop the bass on the floor!

All you've got to do is keep your ears open.

I'm not a star. I'm just backing up the cats.

Women and rhythm-section first!?

I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.

Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?

Try not to judge others. Because someone might have gone through something that you wouldn't have survived if it happened to you.

We are one species out of a billion

The only thing that counts in life is solid, material assets. It's no time for theories when everything is falling to pieces around us.

Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

I think President Obama really does get the value of the arts.

When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

Bad shooters are always open

O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea.

I rarely listen to commercial radio, and when I do, I'm shocked by how many ads there are, and how annoying they are, and how bad the radio station usually is.