Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to complement and enhance life.

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.

You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!