When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art."

Scottish bagpipe has two tenors and one bass - three drone pipes - and then the one chanter. If you put bagpipes together, it creates such a fine sound.

I was an ignored guy and have been for many years. But I suppose I became well-known after being ignored. After the release of the CDs and LPs, especially the LPs, people like it. I was impressed.

Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.

I would sing myself with a tambura and just regular a cappella singing and practicing. I did that around 1973 and 1974, and I finally developed my own style of singing.

I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition.

I don't want to release things too similar to each other. I've been working on selecting something different from my other work.

Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.

We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep.

Passion + Vision +Skill + Mentoring = Success.

Teach them what you love to do in life. It really doesn't matter what it is. It never does. Just show them how important a passion is . . .

They will never believe that an ordinary girl could do such an extraordinary thing, ' Genevieve worried. 'What would I tell them? 'Tell them there is no such thing as an ordinary girl, said Bloom.

Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses, or products of the mill or field are our country? It is a spiritual thought that is in our minds.

That's what we're here on this Earth for, to help others.

People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record."

Someone else's success is not your failure.

I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.