"For me, I can still say music is God, music is the face of God. That's everybody, that's the hearts of men. And that'…"

"Whether people accept this music or not, I don’t give a damn. I know how good—and right—the group is. We all sell out…"

"I practice all the scales. Everyone should know lots of scales. Actually, I feel there are only scales. What is a cho…"

"There's no record industry, and so musicians I know, because I get mail from young musicians, I mean, they're really …"

"...The music was evolving with society, and society, if you recall, there was a narcissism that entered society in th…"

"An audience is just a mirror of what's happening on stage, and if what's happening on stage has love in it—real feeli…"

"A musician is like an ear for humanity, just as a painter is like an eye for humanity. The sounds somehow exist in a …"

"John McLaughlin. He's the one, that's the killer. You might hear anything; that's because John has the knowledge."

"I don't relate to all this in exactly the same way that John [McLaughlin] does and yet we all meet at the same points…"

"I heard a John McLaughlin record and it was all like acoustic guitar, and it was jazzy, and I was like 'oh yeah yeah …"