And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel’s Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.

So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.

I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows.

When you’re playing music, say for instance, you’re playing a part of the band and you’re looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it’s up and it goes right...

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don’t consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

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.

File sharing is our radio; that’s the way people hear our stuff.

I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can...

I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn’t get paid for it like they did.

I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.

When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn’t on...

I am happy that women can relate to my songs, and hopefully men can too.

Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things I had learned while I was away from the band. It sort of...

When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it’s more like movie making.

Money don’t rule me, record companies don’t rule me.

When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They’ say they couldn’t do my style.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That’s really what Justified is about.

Dweezil and I are going on tour with the band probably starting in the middle of February for a month probably playing a few songs from my new record and then I’ll continue on after...

There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says ‘no,’ then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at...

I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.

The doctor must have put my pacemaker in wrong. Every time my husband kisses me, the garage door goes up.

When people pay their money, they want to see you. That’s the way it was with Elvis. I like to remember him the way he was in Hawaii.

I won’t eat anything green.

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

I’m competitive, so I don’t like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I’m partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.

I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I’ve written that you never hear.

I’ve been performing on stage since I was six years old.

I think we realized this is a good time now because people really do want to hear some realistic songs, something that has some substance to it.

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

My bad habits aren’t my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.

We’ve always had a dark atmosphere to our performances, so it sort of developed along those ways.

There’s no way to be able to tell what it’s like to be a country singer until you’re walking in the shoes.

Nothing is ever a barometer. Nothing is ever for sure except that this band has been around forever.