But I end up with these bands who have players from literally all over the world.

I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.

There is no luck; you've got to make your luck. You've got to always be prepared-without trying to.

Music can't save the world, but can make one a little calmer.

Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument like putting a nail into a wall.

Simply the best! Great music, extremely entertaining.

If the greatest loss of his life is the loss of a dream he's always known to be a dream, then he's among the fortunate ones.

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

“Governments accountable to the voters focus on building roads and schools—not weapons of mass destruction.”

A death is the most terrible of facts.

In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards, Poverty, The snow falling down and necks of lovers.

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

Think of Slide as a giant media network for people to transmit information. The content that's in there now has been provided by users - it's whatever they want it to be.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.