I do think fame can distort reality. I've always felt that.

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin

I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a keyboard replacement. The band had no name, just my name.

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

Nothing heals like love and time

Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.

The bass and drums are the engine, and the key to good bass playing is it's not what you play, it's what you DON'T play that counts. You leave the spaces, they're more important than anything.

I feel that whatever you put out is what you'll get back. I always put out, 'hey, hi, I'm a bass player, no bullshit,' and that's what I got back. I got the respect.

You need to encourage yourself especially if you know you are on the path of significance.

Unconditional love is the greatest gift we can ever give.

Aging is harder for beautiful people, and Anna was beautiful.

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.

Applying sunscreen became a habit that now I use in my daily life.

That's another flaw with performance-based rewards: They are easy for one of your competitors to top.

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

Change isn't always bad; we should always be learning and improving. But the change I was seeing involved principles, not procedures.