A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
I learn something new every day - to edit, to take out all the extraneous matter and stress form, logic, and content. I try to play beautiful music.
I never have any trouble playing anything I can think of. The trouble is in thinking of what to play.
Hearing myself so much all the time, I don't think I sound that special all the time because it's me.
I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.
We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.
Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.
All beliefs will crash somewhere. Only reality will sustain itself.
Thank goodness I've saved my money.
My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it.
Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.