Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

I think we're all pretty odd.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

Wisdom always ends up in gain

A timid person is frightened before a danger a coward during the time and a courageous person afterwards.

He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after. [He that lives not well one year sorrows seven years after.]

Initially, when I was first starting as a musician, I was a very nationalistic figure and I used to believe in doing a lot of national songs. I would always have a national song in the albums I did.

Spokes unite in the hub of a wheel.

I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.

When you stand still, you reject the struggle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ultimately, you reject fulfillment, happiness, the dance for joy and everything else that is eternally good.

Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

Inspiration always arrives unannounced.