Keep searchin’ for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.

- Rahsaan Roland Kirk

What about a blues in W, in the key of W.

- Rahsaan Roland Kirk

You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone on for centuri…

- Rahsaan Roland Kirk

When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hop…

- Rahsaan Roland Kirk

We are all driven by an invisible whip. Some run, some have fun, some are hip, some tip, some dip, but we all must answer to the invisible whip.

- Rahsaan Roland Kirk

I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.

- Rahsaan Roland Kirk

All it is, is a tone. So I'm gonna come back as a note!

- Rahsaan Roland Kirk

I wish we could just stay on the bandstand, it's so peaceful up here.

- Rahsaan Roland Kirk