The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.

Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.

But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.

I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of "Daydream" in a lot of elevators.

I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

First of all I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the comeback that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers somewhere to be viable, salable and so on.

My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18, that was an early equivalent of educational television. Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.

You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.

I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.

A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.

Like a flower, bloom with all your love and power.

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.

That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.

Like many features of a landscape, knowledge looks different from different angles.

I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

The coaching profession doesn't hand you any gifts.