I try to practice with my life..
Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Play….
"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.".
I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being both writer and musi….
You cannot hear music and noise at the same time..
Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating..
The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section..
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words..
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity..
Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!.
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is..
People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians..
Ornette Coleman wasn't sure whether he was going to continue with Charlie Haden-Charlie had some personal problems. I said "You've got to be kidding!….
The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music..
The music is in minors..
Music exists when rhythmic, melodic or harmonic order is deliberately created, and consciously listened to, and it is only language-using, self-consc….
I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from..
With This Ring I give my all to you Now and my whole life through With this ring.
If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!.
Music is a safe kind of high..
... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing that stuff (Rock & Roll) ... you can ….