Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.

True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse

The guitar is of no great importance to me. The people it brings to me are what matter. They are what I'm extremely grateful for, because they are alive. The guitar is just an apparatus.

The music has generated all the techniques I use.

If in doubt, trust your instincts because either you are right or lack the bite to fix it right.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

I want to see you happy. I want you to live in the moment and smile spontaneously. Your entire face lights up. It’s beautiful.

the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

When a High Explosive shell bursts in fifteen feet and does you no damage, you can bet your sweet life you bear a charmed life and no mistake.

To know all things is not permitted.

Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

The Palestinians don't have oil. If they were the Saudis, they wouldn't be in the position they are now. But they have the power of being able to upset the imperial order in the Middle East.

If you can laugh at your mistakes, it's a good thing.