Music Quotes

The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was in a surf band. Surf music is an instrumental music that still means a lot to me, not in an nostalgic way, but as something that really gets to the heart of the guitar itself.

I like to enjoy good music. I like Michael Jackson; I don't care who wrote the songs.

If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60. I don't know, that's a commercial thing, but just the fact that other people like you... there's no point in making music, otherwise. Otherwise, you might as well make it in your bedroom and leave it there.

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

I was working at Zara for a bit and walking dogs and doing shows. I got fired from Zara in New York, and I decided alright, I'm gonna survive just making music. And I did for a little bit. The only reason why I came to L.A. was because a couple labels wanted to sign me.

The '60s was a magical time in the music business. So much creativity and talent. I think a lot of it came from the fact that we had grown up before rock n' roll. We listened to all the great songwriters and big bands, songs with great lyrics and melodies. I think that really influenced everybody.

Black musicians were imitating speech cadences, and Kerouac was imitating the black musicians' breath cadences on their horns and brought it back to speech. It always was speech rhythms or cadences as far as the ear that Kerouac was developing. All passed through black music.

Whether it's music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship - if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book.

What saved me from the hood was Christian faith motivated by music.

Everybody deserves a piece of where they live, in some type of fashion. Music is just my way of preserving that.