Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.

If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.

It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest.

There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia.

We all played bad before we played good.

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.

If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?