Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded t….

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?.

If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it..

...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso.

If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice..

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the musi….

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It wor….

As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music..

You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, a….

PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided a….

There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they ….

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiat….

If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I a….

The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music..

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence..

I don't enjoy songwriting..

To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician would be the point at which one ….

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it..

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my g….

Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard..

We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the ….