every mind is at least as heavy as mine

Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.

Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience.

I don't feel that one instrument has more weight than others. Any sound that you can produce adds to your vocabulary of possibilities.

In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a common language because of records and transportation.

Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.

The reality which is pretending be reality right now, impersonating reality, is just a pretty flimsy structure. There is not a lot of substance to it. You can't find people who are actively involved of affected by it. What you see is a completely different world, what you see is the world of the homeless, and so forth.