If you play angry, you lose what you're supposed to do. On defense we just read our keys and play fast.
Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.
I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.
Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.
I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.
Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.
Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.
Blessed is the mind that jumps over and beyond its own conditioning and lands again into its natural state of unmoving awareness.
Who dreams of a son, save one, childless, having no bright face to flatter its own, who dreams of a son?
Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
You run into stereotypes so that the stereotype filters who you are and what you do, and having to deal with that was the most frustrating thing for me.