People like B.B. King told me I was a 'star' and told me I was 'the future of blues' - and Buddy Guy, too, ... They told me, 'You're it, son; go on out there.

Over the years I hope I've become more of a musican and less of a guitarist.

All of music is connected, but a lot of people don't see it that way

Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz with the popular music of the time.

John Stowell plays jazz, but he doesn’t use any of the clichés; he has an incredible originality. John is a master creator.

The central element in the economic problem of money is the objective exchange-value of money, popularly called its purchasing power.

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.

You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music.

God has created us to be dependent upon Him, to bring Him our challenges and allow Him to help us with them.

Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.

Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid.

The more one gives one's self in creative union with another, the more one becomes one's self.

The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.

Change isn't always bad; we should always be learning and improving. But the change I was seeing involved principles, not procedures.