Bob Dylan

And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Play it f**kin’ loud!

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

I discovered very early that it wasn’t quite enough for me to imitate people.

By and large Jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.

After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that’s how I ended up just being a saxophone player.

In order to be honest with myself, I have to reveal more of who I am. This is a part of the improv process.

I came from an era when we didn’t use electronic instruments. The bass wasn’t even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It’s our great contribution to the arts.

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

I don’t believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.

Music’s a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.

It’s not what you do, but the way you’re doing it and in the end that’s all that we have.

A guitar is something you can hold and love and it’s never going to bug you. But here’s the secret about the guitar – it’s defiant. It will never let you conquer it. The more you get involved with it, the more you realize how little you know.

The point of Jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

I got out of the car and there was a knife in my neck. The guy says, “Don’t move.” And the drummer got out of the car, and he got a gun in his head. This was my entrance to the South Side of Chicago. But it was necessary, because I wanted to play jazz.

I’m no good with chords. I’m horrible with chords.