One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

If you're bourgeois, money is it. It's all the questions and all the answers. Ain't no E-flat or color blue, only $12.98 or $1,000. If it isn't money, it isn't nothing.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

...That is one of the main causes of this arrogance: the idea of power. Then you lose your true power which is to be part of all, and the only way you can be part of all is to understand it. And when you don't understand, you have to go humbly to it. You don't go to school and say, 'I know what you're going to teach me'.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

I think I know what it is but don't ask me to play it