"I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical."

"I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite."

"I don't read music. I don't write or read music."

"I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself."

"And when my spirit wants no stimulus or nourishment save music, I know it is to be sought in cemeteries: the musicians hide in the tombs; from grave to grave flute trills, harp chords answer one another."

"Jazz is the music of the body"

"Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers, and its good for him to have a book and tell the good ole days when he was with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Ray Charles."

"It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don't know about Elvis, 'bout doin' 'em good, y'know? It's nothin' new."

"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe."

"I would collaborate with James Franco as a rapper any day."

"A lot that was happening in 2005, 2006, good and bad, the beats reflected it. It was a lot of money around. People was making music to throw money to."

"I'm not a fan of anybody music who I feel like a sucka. I don't listen to you. They play you in the club, you can have the #1 jam, but if I know your character, how can I listen to your music?"

"Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs."

"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."

"Through the media of films, books, music and the behavior of elders, young minds are excited and aroused into indulgences."

"See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot."

"In the music I was composing I was trying to express my emotions, my so called negative emotions, which were depression, anger and so forth."

"Oh, 1962. The music scene was so bad that several of us decided to come out to Berkeley and take over the folk music scene here."

"Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar."

"As for the source of the music, I believe it comes from the unconscious; that there is no such thing as talent."

"Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that."

"I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head."

"I like all parts of the music, ... When I was on ice, I felt like I am a flamenco dancer."

"She was one of those people who said ''I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.''"