When you play, never mind who listens to you..

Is not poetry the food of love?.

I like to go to the movies or read..

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of..

the more you live the more things reflect all around you!!!!.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one..

Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now..

I don't have the genetic make-up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it..

In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who we were trying to touch. I t….

After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the f*** I was going to do with my life..

No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religio….

History is at once freedom and necessity..

I loved all the parts of him, even the ones I didn't understand..

There are some things that cannot be expressed through words. And that is why we dance..

Death is the only grammatically correct full stop..

Talent works, genius creates..

Money cannot buy happiness..

Do not be astonished at anything, even happiness..

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop….

It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are..

Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words..