"What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music."

"I thought the '60s was the most exciting time and the most vital music, and we were really together as one mind then. Then afterwards, the songs and the bad drugs, that took its toll."

"There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it."

"Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that's what we are."