There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.

There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war. As Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets.

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.