If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.

[Being alcoholic] you're either too high or you're too low. I mean, I was always looking for the bell to ring. I was always waiting for that bell.

No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.

It's a marvelous night for a moondance!

I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much.

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that.