But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper..

There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save it. In a small way….

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers..

Do not fear mistakes. There are none..

Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged..

... Jimmy Page bought a Les Paul because he liked mine, but it was stolen, so he bought a Standard everybody raved about .. that's what he's famous f….

The devaluation of music and what it's now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single costs 99 cents. That's what a single cost in 1960. On my ….

George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finall….

The Beatles came and everybody forgot about everything else. That was a friendly, together, hip interpersonal music, introducing electric sustain, an….

Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the final episode. I think I ha….

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it..

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience..

Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.

The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings whil….

The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know ….

The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances..

My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York..

There's something about comedy, funny things, that people want to pass them along. Serious things and personal things are much more privately enjoyed….

You only get better by playing..

A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere..

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid.