“You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.”

“We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.”

“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”

“The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.”

“It's always the same when I feel the autumn coming. I want to be up and away somewhere, over the hills and far away.”

“Because who would ever want to get close to another person if they knew how hard the letting-go part was? In your heart they only die a little at a time, don't they? Like a plant when you go away on a trip and forget to ask a neighbor to poke in once in awhile with the old watering-can, and its so sad—”

“You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.”