Vladimir Lenin

And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?

Thus, the twentieth century marks the turning-point from the old capitalism to the new, from the domination of capital in general to the domination of finance capital.

Every society is three meals away from chaos.

The goal of Socialism is Communism.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.

That’s a great thing about jazz. We leave it a little space so that we have the opportunity to go where the moment takes us

Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you’ve got white, pick it where you’ve got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you’ll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?

I hear beauty and elegance combined with passion and fire.

Jazz music is our original American culture.

I don’t dig staying in one groove.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.

Music washes away the dust of every day life.

There’s only one bass player in a band. I’m the best bass player of any band I’m in.

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I’m using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I’m happy with that.

One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music. That was his reason for being alive. Nothing else mattered except music, really.

A Les Paul feels like a guitar and I play differently on that and I sound too much like someone else.

It is Jazz’s very nature to change, to develop and adapt to the circumstances of its environment.

Silence is what makes music sexy. I just move blocks of silence around. The notes are an afterthought.

Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

I don’t try to please when I play. I try to cure.