Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conv….
Next to music beer was best..
I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football..
I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progr….
It's interesting to see how acoustic guitars are emerging as a primary instrument once again ... reminds me very much of what Jim Messina and I were ….
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk..
If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting..
Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words..
Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and ….
Music has a very powerful and wonderful influence in establishing feelings and moods that can lift and elevate your thoughts and your actions..
In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music..
I know I'm no glamour girl, and it's not easy for me to get up in front of a crowd of people. It used to bother me a lot, but now I've got it figured….
A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common..
Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him..
Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers..
I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you ge….
I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir..
I never believed in a set routine. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel..
Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circ….
If we hold on together I know our dreams will never die Dreams see us through to forever Where clouds roll by For you and I.
I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's becau….