The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart.
You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It’s a decision.
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
I realized that it’s all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.
When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.
Music rearranges your molecular structure.
There’s never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you’re part of the solution.