When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.

I can hear what I want [people] to play. If you don't hear what you want someone to play, then you can't tell 'em.

I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.

If you don't know what to play, play nothing.

If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.

Music is an addiction.

Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.