Bob Dylan

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.

I don’t intend to be a performing flea anymore. I was the dreamweaver, but although I’ll be around I don’t intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don’t want to die at 40.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

To the person who uses music as a medium for the expression of ideas, feelings, images, or what have you; anything which facilitates this expression is properly his instrument.

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good – he’s rock’s #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us.

I don’t have a definition of Jazz. You’re just supposed to know it when you hear it.

Don’t play the saxophone. Let it play you.

I play whatever the hell comes out… that’s it.

Ideologies separate us. Art brings us together.

People love us when we play what we want to play but we’re starving.

People will always need love, romance, a tender touch and really personal and deeply felt music.

The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.

I’ll play it first and tell you what it is afterwards.

You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.