"The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long."

“I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.”

“I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at the base of a majestic beech: "Statues are hewn by fools like me: only God could make this tree." The Taoists looked at the inside of the tree. They saw God present, not as the super-sculptor, but as the primal force from which the tree drew its being and its specific form. Becoming aware of this divine origin was for them "great knowledge," to be distinguished from the "small knowledge" of our petty, every-day existence.”

“I use all different kinds of techniques for all different types of music. The music dictates the style.”

Source : "Fretless Questions: John Patitucci". Fretlessbass Interview, fretlessbass.com. September 25, 2006.

“I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty”

“I am for Obama, all the way. I dont support Obama just because he is a black man; I support him because he is an educated black man. He is making black people proud.”

“He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.”

“You once said you loved me. Do you still?" My sister is watching this exchange between us. She smiles warmly at me, giving me the strength to tell him the truth. "I never stopped loving you. Even when I tried desperately to forget you. I couldn't.”

“If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business.”