Musician Quotes

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

I don't research anything.

I am reactive.

For me, playing is about playing with other people.

For me, Company is still the best way for me to work.

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.

I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

I have never been over fond of scenes anywhere.

I am very proud of The Saints and I'm very glad that I've been associated with them all these years, but the next record is the best record... has to be the philosophy for any band that remains even halfway decent or vibrant, and that is kind of where my head's at.

I always liked the intensity of the recording.

For a time that you couldn't get a gig if you didn't look a certain way.

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Action is the antidote to despair.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?