“All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!”

Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright

It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.

Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!

We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.

I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.

I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.

Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.

The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.

Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.

And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.

I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.

If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.

If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.

If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.

Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.

We’re special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That’s not just my story. That’s your story. That’s our story.

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

I’m very pleased to be here. Let’s face it, at my age I’m very pleased to be anywhere.

The prevailing – and foolish – attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he’s managing.

It’s good to be here. At 98, it’s good to be anywhere.

Nice to be here? At my age it’s nice to be anywhere.