John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
I gave the album [You're Under Arrest] to Quincy Jones and he loved "D Train". We couldn't call it "D Train"; it's called "MDI/Something's On Your Mind/MD2". That's on the album.
They [police] do me like that all the time! "What you work for?".
I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.