Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
I’m sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
Do what you love, and you’ll always love what you do.
I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
You’ll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.
For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
They say that no one’s gonna play this on the radio. They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone. But only songs like these played in minor keys, keep those memories holding on.
And so my child and I came to this place to meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced. We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad.
There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
I’ve reached the age where competence is a turn-on.