Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music. It doesn't matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is. The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.

To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.

In reality everybody has got musical thoughts. If you are able to overcome the part of it which is muscle training, which is what most musical playing actually is, performance actually is, is muscle training, and you are able to convert your ideas directly into music, you're a musician, too.

Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it's Alright

If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

Kerouac was a breeze, some kind of incredible super-American, mythos personality blasting through the highways of 1947 America.