Women and rhythm-section first!?

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.

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?

There is no good day or a bad day, but our perception makes it so.

When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.

There is a lot of underground type of fighting going on and some of it is not safe, it's pretty brutal. But it's absolutely fascinating.

Woo woo, secret vampire stuff!

It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

One night in Pittsburgh, thirty-thousand fans gave me a standing ovation when I caught a hot dog wrapper on the fly.

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.

All I need is one mic One beat, one stage One ni%$a frontin' my face on the front page Only if I had one gun, one girl and one crib One god to show me how to do things his son did.

The worst thing you can do, despite the innumerable obstacles we confront, is to not try.