What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.

Use your ears to record and your eyes to video.

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When the artist makes a mistake, the artist pays for it.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the transistors, the speakers, the alloys in the receiver itself, but never to concern himself overmuch with putting out the program. The program is there; all he has to do is receive it as far as possible.

To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.