Musician Quotes

So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.

So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with.

People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.

People call to keep me abreast of what's going on.

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.

Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it's different from the people you knew before.

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May.

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.

I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone.

I hadn't been practicing or playing or anything. But that had been a vital part of my life.

But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith.

Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.

My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens. We really don't have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm.

Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.

It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million.

It took me 29 years to finish that song. That's a typical Jardine move.

I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world.

I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality.

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

I'm too old to do crazy things anymore.

I'm really not tailored for responsibility.

I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great.

I'm a long way from Ike Turner.

I went to India, lived, and studied.

I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.

I wanted to play the Apollo because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.

I think rap definitely has its place in the art world. I think it is an art form. But, just like any art form, you can misuse it.