I figured out how to get the guitar to rumble. . . I put it on the middle pickup, turn the tone know down, grab it by the wang bar, and just shake it on the floor. . . a Stratocaster is pretty tough - I wouldn't recommend that anybody do that with their ES-335
Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.
People, instead of competing, they can actually support each other, in music.
Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
I'm very expressive. Expressing my emotions and experiences through music has always been an important outlet for me. Many of my songs are influenced by personal events and experiences that I have gone through.
I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music.
I try to get a degree of realism in my music.
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together. . . Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity.
I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.
The roots of Cuban music are in my head.
If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.
If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.
First thought, best thought - I live by that when I make my own music.
In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.
Hip-hop has crossed many boundaries and racial barriers, broken them down for people to come together, to listen to the music or come out of their own social ills in each of the countries that it has went to. Thanks to my traveling, and keeping up from place to place, and pushing our ideology - peace, love, unity, and having fun - it has worked.
Music is what I love to do. Music, fashion, a couple of chairs, I'm cool, I'm grateful.
Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.
Any audience, as a rule, goes for a fast number.
Music springs from and is replenished by a hidden source which lies outside the world or reality. Music ever spoke to me of a mysterious world beyond, which moved my heart deeply and eloquently intimated its transcendental nature.
