I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.

I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.

I've always been interested in shaping music in odd ways, with odd riffs and that's been probably something that I've continued on with my studies with improvisation as I'm working with people.

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

There is no samkit (vision with right belief that I am Pure Soul) where there are kashays [anger, pride, deceit and greed], and where there are no kashays, there is samkit (self realization).

I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

I never see the color of a person. I never notice the color of their eyes. But the thing that always gets my attention. Is when the spout out lies

Different musical instruments provide for different music.

Plants and factories are already starting to move back into the United States, and big league Ford, General Motors, so many of them.

The race may or may not be to the swift, but tell me, is it likely that the fight will be entrusted to the dead?

I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.

I once thought I had mono for an entire year. It turned out I was just really bored.

Reason can be used only when looking critically back.

By all means, fire the customers who aren't worth the time and the trouble. But understand that the moment you insist the customer is wrong, you've just started the firing process.