Joshua Quotes

People just love to bash LA. People say it`s so pretentious, so arrogant, so this and that. But it`s truly a wonderful place. You don`t have to go to the places where that stuff goes on. You don`t have to go to Beverly Hills, you don`t have to go to the parties. You can live up in the Lower Canyon and live such a perfectly healthy, beautiful, fun life with all your friends. You can drive two hours one way and be at the Joshua Tree desert, two hours one way you`re skiing at Big Bear. Sure, it can get full-on and that`s why it`s good to get out. But it`s too easy just to say, "Nup, I hate it. I`m not living there anymore. - NW Magazine, March 2000

The noontide light passing through the rib cage of Joshua trees, like morning for Matisse.

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

We are certainly getting ahead; if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar.

Friday, I was rehearsing with Joshua Nelson at the Synagogue at 10 a.m. At Noon, I was here, talking on a panel about what folk music is. The moment I left here, I went to a recoding session, and played tuba on an Australian blues singers record. And the moment I finished that, I drove to a gig to play jazz and blues standards at a café. And then I got home around 10 o`clock, collapsed, and then came back here again.