My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music and Law.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Talent works, genius creates.

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

Play always as if in the presence of a master.

I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

When you play, do not trouble yourself as to who is listening. Yet always play as though a master listened to you.

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

It's always important to me to play something other DJs aren't playing.

Living in New York, I get inspired by what young women are wearing - everything from high fashion to street fashion.

Clearly understand that the only limitations you will ever have are the limitations you impose upon yourself. You truly do have infinite potential.

I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.

Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills.

But if there be an hereafter,And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'dAnd suffer'd to speak out, tells every man,Then must it be an awful thing to die;More horrid yet to die by one's own hand.

Nobody in love has a sense of humor.

I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.

Man, my girl is one tough chick when she wants to be. I wonder if it has something to do with those big, comfy granny panties she’s got on.