I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.

Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.