Sound has no parents.

Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it.

Jerry Garcia was one of the original American icons. He played naturally and beautifully.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

Making music is like a form of religion for me, because it soothes your heart and increases the pleasure of your brain. Most of all, it's very enjoyable to express something that you can only hear and not see, which is not bad.

All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body--like radiation, cancer, and all.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.