“I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.”

“If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.”

“I'll put it this way, it's like when you play football and you put on all the gear — the shoes and the pads and the helmet. At first, it's bulky and cumbersome. But then, when you go in the game and you start to play, you don't even know you have it on. Swimming in the suit was like that. Once you get into it, you forget about the suit.”

“And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell… You know you love me.
XOXO,
Gossip Girl”

“If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.”

“I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played.”

“When asked to play a 12-bar blues, Ornette Coleman fingered his plastic saxophone and played nothing…he's felt more nothing than you or I know.”

“For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.”

“Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.”

“My years of reading P. T. Barnum is finally coming into play. [snaps fingers] This notion of saying nothing, of keeping a secret, and doing it in a way that's not elitist but that's like, You wanna come in here and hear? [whispers] We have a secret. That's all that I can tell you. But you're involved. You know?”