Of the One O'Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: "I wish it were mine".

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.

Every new friend is a new journey through a brand new road toward a brand new mysterious heart.

You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!

The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

You need peers; you need people who are at the same level you are. You never know in life when you're going to need help, and you never know who you're going to need it from.

Massive success is the best revenge.

People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.

Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

My energy flagged because of heavy cold but the guys took up the slack.