I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.
I never have any trouble playing anything I can think of. The trouble is in thinking of what to play.
Hearing myself so much all the time, I don't think I sound that special all the time because it's me.
I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.
We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.
Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.
It is not the neutrals or the lukewarm who make history.
If you have an enemy, you first have to listen - whether he really is an enemy or just speaks in a different language
A bud is a flower-to-be. A flower in waiting. Waiting for just the right warmth and care to open up. It's a little fist of love waiting to unfold and be seen by the world. And that's you.
If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.