Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

All the money in the world is spent on feeling good.

No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.

Bad music can make you weak.

You have to be around people you trust; otherwise you can't do anything - you're afraid, you're paranoid, and you can't do any work.

Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.

You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.

Musicians communicate in other ways. That's just something you rely on.

I just feel that music is a great life, because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.

While you can't hold on to everything forever, you're a fool if you sell back your college books at semester's end: have you learned nothing of this life?

There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine, A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.

One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

When I met you you were oh so sweet, now you give me the bread and you take all the meat.

I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.

I cry to let everything out

The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

I would say that one of the things I wish I could do differently would be to be more outgoing.

Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy & peaceful.

When we first sort of break in or bust into the house, if you will, there's some tough love.