If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it.

As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.

If I don't play for a while, it's just like getting hungry.

We were all influenced by Lester [Young]. Listen to the records that he made with [Count] Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy.

Music keeps people sane.

I just take a tune and play it the only way I can. That's it. I don't really dwell on it very much. Some people probably do. I can only say I play it the way I feel it.

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

Watch birth and death:The lotus has alreadyOpened its flower.

Gratitude heals, cleanses and purifies.

Give me something in between the spectrums of light, darkness and sound and most days I will create something out of it for you.

Do you really think all angels are sweet and gentle? You must have forgot that the front lines of the War in Heaven were littered with bold women that had something to say.

But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the press. I want to rule and to organize the whole country.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.

The weddings that I've been in have been pretty mellow.

Love isn't material. It's energy... We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.

I'm so blessed that I can still be here to bring the music and have new generations of fans. My Pops would be so proud.