I think music needs to be of its time and speak to that time.
If you have to eat a frog, don’t look at it for too long.
Every person has a signature. Just some people don’t know it yet.
We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.
The female brain matures at maybe eighteen or so. The male brain doesn’t mature about until mid-twenties. In fact in some countries like Canada they’re thinking of treating young men in their early twenties as juveniles, because that’s basically what they are.
I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
When a fellow says it aint the money but the principle of the thing, its the money.
Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways.
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
The first [task of the Pentagon] is to preserve an international system in which what are called American interests – which primarily means business interests, can flourish.
I can play all I know in eight bars.
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
When we know love matters more than anything, and we know that nothing else REALLY matters, we move into the state of surrender. Surrender does not diminish our power, it enhances it.
You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?
My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.
I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money
That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you’. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in’.
Listen it makes you sound smarter.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
