Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.

Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.

It's like an act of murder - you play with intent to commit something.

Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the rhythm that I used in jerking ice-cream sodas at the Poodle Dog. I fooled around with the tune more and more until at last, lo and behold, I had completed my first piece of finished music.

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.