Nobody on the road. Nobody on the beach. I feel it in the air, the summer's out of reach.
The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.
It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.
Make life an art rather than art from life.
I think once you've seen a song with a video, it limits your own mind's ability to read into it anything other than what you've seen.
You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.
Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!
The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of apathy. ' I'm like, 'What?' I don't walk up to a friend and go 'That's a stylin' looking vortex of apathy you've got there pal. I was swimming up a river of deceit myself. '
Nothing else exists when art does.
What our profession is all about is interacting with people.
My first big break was with the Ted Fio Rito band. Fio Rito had a bunch of record hits in the 1930s and did a lot of radio work back then. When he came to my home town in early 1942, I sat in with the band. Ted liked me and offered me a job.