There’s a lot more country in this country than there is city, and I think a lot of people will be able to relate to what I’m saying.

But, I don’t think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can’t create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that’s written, he becomes...

I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.

I’m going back in time to re-listen to the things I listened to years ago and discovering it all over again with new ears, ya know?

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through...

I had gone full-on folkie; I’d had it with bands.

Music. It’s all creativity right here, right now.

The audience, going along with the story, knows when the song is stuck in, feels it, resents it and can’t enjoy it, and the song fails.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to...

To those of us who know the pain, Of valentines that never came, And those whose names were never called, When choosing sides for basketball.

Dizzy used to tell me that I am playing too hard. He used to say to not give everything. Miles used to tell me that too.

They say it’s better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.

I never expected to be anybody important.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

I’ve never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

People go back to the stuff that doesn’t cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don’t have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff...

Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.

But I’ve done some soundtrack things with my brother for stuff, and I’m hoping to get into actual scoring. That’s really where I’d like to end up.

I think that there’s a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don’t have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff....

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

I’m not a big fan of layered productions.

I know what it’s like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.

I wouldn’t have dared ask God for all that He’s given me. I couldn’t have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have.

You ain’t supposed to get salmon when they’re swimming upstream to spawn. But if you’re hungry, you do.

My love life is like everyone else’s – great, and then terrible.

The fans have been very nice to me and I might say that all those fans that Frank said went away is not so.

You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

But now I’ve been in the arena for 47 years and I stutter less today than I did in those days.

The cast called her Lucy, but everyone else called her Mrs. Ball. She was honest with people. If she liked you, you knew it. If she didn’t, you knew it, also.

I think now we’re doing the best work we’ve ever done. Whether or not that’s recognized yet is irrelevant to me. I know how I feel about it.

I get everything form what you might expect like a club date to the city of Boston inviting me to do a concert during the Tall Ships Ceremony.

I’m very new to the industry. I’m not on the Billboard 200 and that is alarming to me. But when I sat down with my management they said it’s not a big deal and that...

I stand before you a totally healthy person.

If you asked me what pop is right now. I’d say hip hop.

You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.

I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I’m in, that I’d attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there...

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.

Don’t hate the media, become the media.

When there’s people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

I wasn’t born a superstar.

When I use the Internet, it’s pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people’s web sites, what’s going on, listening to music. It’s pretty much a musical thing for me.

There is still a future with music, because people want music.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don’t deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.

Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.

Sex has spoiled Daryl but not success.

Our perception of songs that we’ve written… the meaning changes from day to day… to whatever stage we’re at in our life and careers.

A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.

It’s just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.