Art does not explain..

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!.

People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given….

When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everythi….

The worst crime is faking it..

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off..

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing..

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment..

The themes I sing about tend to be centered on love, but in the most total, general way 360 degrees of love..

When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again..

When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music..

Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain..

If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money..

Folk music is a bunch of fat people..

It's the melody within the heart that helps us to endure..

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!.

How do I get to Carnegie Hall?.

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West..

Music is the melody whose text is the world..

Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good..

When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard..