“Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.”
“My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there's no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.”
“How could you carry the inside of a person with you and not call them a friend, no matter what the rules said?”
“Nothing mattered to him about a person other than what was inside them.”
“Musicians have notes. Painters have paint. Writers have words.”
“Words to a writer is like notes to a musician, both know when they are off key.”