
I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

All humans are the same sex, except albinos.

Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.

The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll.

I can guarantee you one thing, we will never agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis.

Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain.

Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

All blues singers are great liars.

The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.

Rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.