Vladimir Lenin

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the ‘experience of the revolution’ than to write about it.

In the history of modern socialism this is a phenomenon, that the strife of the various trends within the socialist movement has from national become international.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

A drummer has to be kind-hearted.

I can play all I know in eight bars.

Only play what you hear. If you don’t hear anything, don’t play anything.

A great thing about being a musician is you don’t stop until the day you die.

I play as I feel.

I am inclined to just write music and not worry about what people can or can’t do.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It’s like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won’t let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you’re allowed to sleep. It’s always in the middle of the night, or you’re half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. Every time you try to put your finger on it, it slips away. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them…

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

I’m still searching even today for a sound, like the guy that’s searching for a home. I haven’t been able to find that completely. I’m satisfied at times with the sound of my guitar… but it is a little sound that I hear but I can’t tell anybody about it. I don’t know how. But if I ever get it, I’ll know.

The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

If my own work had more importance than any others, it’s because the piano is the key instrument in music.

You can’t rehearse a blues darlin’.

Oh, my darling, it’s incredible, that someone so unforgettable should think I am unforgettable, too.