I was a time bomb waiting to detonate, burned out, sick of the music business, out of touch with everything and heavily abusing various substances, d…

- Charles Lloyd

My music, it breathes. It's the mysticism of sound. I'm a sound seeker, and I'm enthralled with it, by what it can do to change the molecules and upl…

- Charles Lloyd

Tim Price is truly blessed - he plays music because he loves it.

- Charles Lloyd

I think when you love music, you love a lot of it. Now when it comes to jazz, it's very much in the hyperions of height. You go exploring every night.

- Charles Lloyd

The youngster in me is still alive and kicking. I was infected by music at a very young age, so it's always kept me younger than springtime.

- Charles Lloyd

I think that music makers just really bless the planet.

- Charles Lloyd

Spirituality is a word that is bandied about a lot. So I think it might mean different things to different people. I know that the United States of A…

- Charles Lloyd

All my life I'm trying to go forward and trying to grow.

- Charles Lloyd

I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all these great musicians would come throu…

- Charles Lloyd