Musician Quotes

Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock.

Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.

I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.

When I used to live in the Brewster Projects, I always thought it would be fantastic to have a phone. I would dream about a phone.

For me, Schubert contains the world.

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that, but learn to love what you have.

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.

Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.

I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.