Music tells no truths..

Your life is worth much more than gold..

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin..

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold..

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight..

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open..

I've come up with the theory that the music is within. We don't bring it in; it's already there. We have to figure out how to get it out..

... the hardest studio music to play is Tom & Jerry - cartoons. The music makes absolutely no sense, as music. You can't get into hearing it. There's….

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die..

Whenever you study composition you inevitably encounter Bach right off the bat. You can't get across the room without running into him and the other ….

The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished..

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain..

Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling w….

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'..

We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fre….

Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts..

... there are a lot of shredders in country music - Redd Volkaert, Brent Mason, Dan Huff .. and guys like that.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing into….

Albert Lee and I have become real close friends, and he comes out anytime I'm in the L.A. area, and he'll sit in for the whole show ! ... we've got a….

Playing live is about going for it .. it's about bringing it ... you should see a bunch of people trying out stuff, actually performing, instead of l….

My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The Major had often wondered how….