[Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar, for instance. There was a certain purity that was sought among those people.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible.

Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.

For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

The hallmark of an artist is generosity.