I said to [Lionel] Richie, "Man, my wife says you must really respect women because you write such beautiful love songs."

Catch Harry Belafonte. He's got a helluva rhythm section.And so have the Pointer Sisters. And that little guy with Sammy Clayton. He plays the whole show with 40 members.

I couldn't do "What's Love Got To Do With It", Tina Turner because it wasn't the right tempo; so I scratched it from the record. I wanted to do it about a year ago, but something happened.

You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.

I'll play it first and figure out what it's called later.

I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.

[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.