“Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.”

“Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it".”

“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.”

“The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ (fill in the blank), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like.”

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”

“The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.”

“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”