Swedish Proverb

I’d solo on my guitar; then sing; then solo; then sing some more. one stopped when the other started. That way I felt a continuity, not a conflict, like a wheel that keeps turning. Both sounds – guitar and voice – were coming out of me, but they issued from different parts of my soul.

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

I write songs about real things… The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

I think you can play anything you wanna as long as you take the audience along with you.

How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don’t you ask him? And besides, maybe we’d all like to be like Miles, and just haven’t got the guts.

If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach.

I just remember always trying to emulate Dinah Washington, hanging out in my bedroom closet.

I’ll keep evolving and put that into my songs.

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

My improvisations are a beguiling mixture of the vertical and the horizontal.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

There’s a way of playing safe and then there’s where you create something you haven’t created before.

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That’s why I wanted the clarinet.

I like to sleep. There is no set time of day for sleep. You sleep when you’re tired and that’s all there is to it.