In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.

Any artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's happening, when it's coming through. No matter how much you may want to do it, if it's not happening then it's simply not happening.

And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.