If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit Number2- Never forget rule number 1.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.

Every day is a gift. Every thought is a lift. Every hour is a prize. Use it and be wise.

Mess with a magical chic and you get some major clean-up when she is pissed!!!

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

His [Sam Fuller] self-discipline was amazing. No matter what happened, he'd always go out to his Royal Upright typewriter and just keep working on his stories, his "yarns" as he called them.

I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.

Real frontier-busting math explores new worlds . . . . If you can communicate that experience, somewhere between math and uncertainty, life experience provides the balance.

Don't repeat the lies of the liars.

To increase speed you must increase the amount of rest, peace, calmness that you can maintain. That is the secret to playing fast.