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.

In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.

With "We Are The World," I can't even eat when I watch that on television. If I'm eatin' some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.

The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill.

You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.

It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?

You can't eat a winner's plaque.