I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.
It’s a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.
I tell kids, don’t trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It’s the plug-in drug.
The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.
I’d really rather put songs on people’s lips than in their ears.
If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.
There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to help save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.
RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung.
The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.
Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.
My job, is to show folks there’s a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet.
I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.
Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?
Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.
The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn’t use their imaginations to think of the impossible.