What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.
I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else.
Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.
Your development as a musician will come to an eventual standtill if you do not develop yourself as a human being. Only by having a creative, expansive and inspiring life can you create creative, expansive and inspiring music.
It's important to respect and exhaustively study the masters of music, but as you grow and develop it's important to use their discoveries, not as a final destination but as a catalyst for your original ideas.
General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.
The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but want to get in a little practice.
I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.