You should get the feeling you should move. That's what is meant when people say the music moves me.

It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.

If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.

Music is a way of life, it's everything. I play drums and that's what I believe I was born to do.

That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is essential and non-negotiable.

I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.

To me John Coltrane was like an angel on earth. He struck me that deeply.

I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.

Nobody was born a master

Only ignorance makes people put up with defeat.

I'm not greedy at all. Sometimes I pinch myself because of what I've got.

If you've got a business - you didn't build that.

Having descended beneath it all, He is perfectly positioned to lift us.

Bound in primal longings, we pine to be understood by ourselves.

It's been my fate to compensate for the childhood I've never known.

The most dominant cultural attributes maintained are the ones that are reinforced by your environment.

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.