I dont really believe in regret or mistakes. I try to take everything as it is, be comfortable with myself.
I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.
Music is the only thing keeping the planet together
Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out.
I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man. I'm doing a very bad imitation on the bass of Jerry Jemmott, Bernard Odum, Jimmy Fielder, Jimmy Blanton, Igor Stravinsky, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, James Brown, Charlie Parker. . . the cats, man. I'm just backing up the cats.
A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.
All you've got to do is keep your ears open.
I've never been a yes man.
You can't put passion and obsession into someone's employment contract - either you are or you aren't.
General consultant to mankind.
This is our world now The world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud.