All that I've played, all that I've sung, I couldn't have done any other way..

I don't like things that aren't true..

Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity..

The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an observer. ... You're constantly on….

It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting for dinner, and….

Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me..

These are not necessarily our agendas, but we feel a part of what a performer is, and what a performer has to say is more than just words and music..

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts..

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive..

I've been on top longer and I am younger. I'm just better..

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself..

I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from..

When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello, Dolly!.' Then he can blow a couple that h….

He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none….

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repe….

[On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias..

If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing..

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it..

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest..

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't kn….

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is..