"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 …"

"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…"

"What John McLaughlin did with the electric guitar set the world on its ear. No one ever heard an electric guitar play…"

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