Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions..

A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good..

Truly to sing, that is a different breath..

Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness..

It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best fri….

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it..

People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them?.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are..

I let my music take me where my heart wants to go..

A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it kind of gets to know what it is after awhile... the re….

The history of a people are found in its songs..

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it..

All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not solois….

your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire….

Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's sort of like the foundation to a ….

I couldn't be more thankful to get my start on a soap opera. It was the hardest job I ever had. Got to practice in front of the camera, like, every d….

I hate the word practice. Practice breeds inurement. Instead of discovering, of distinguishing traits that are deeply hidden or merely veiled, one en….

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it..

"Go and Say Goodbye" by the Buffalo Springfield stands as one of the first examples of what would later be branded country rock.

Music is the perfect type of art..

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience..