Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit Number2- Never forget rule number 1.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to be what we make ourselves be by the way we choose to act, as opposed to making excuses for the way we act and regretting it.

My home is in heaven. I’m just passing through this world.

A man who accustoms himself to buy superfluities is often in want of necessities.

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

And she walked away, and she walked away, and that was that, and that was that.

If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

A tired nation, said David Lloyd George, is a Tory nation, and the United States today cannot afford to be either tired or Tory.

Spiritual is the word people use when they mean they want to be covered whey they die but they're not getting up early on a Sunday.