“That all these nuts should quit messing around these goddamn bombs! Otherwise: forget it.”

“I think I’d like to be independently wealthy as far as money goes, and be free to play what I want, when I want to, and not have to worry about what people worry about.”

“I’d like everybody to mean what they say they mean about non-discrimination.”

“To be able to play – play well.”

“To be all over the world, in good health.”

“To have a time machine.”

“To live in a world of complete freedom, where man does not lose his creative ability and his senses, and where his respect for the next man broadens by the day. And that the ultimate end of all his troubles, trials and tribulations would turn out to be for the good of every man. And that it will be a perpetuating thing, like the evergreen tree.”

“That man should always worship in that which he believes, and live what he believes to such an extent that it shows in his every action. And  then he does not have to preach it to the world, that I am.”

“My third and final wish: that there be no hunger. A little pain, a little suffering ~ enough to make one understand himself. So that I, as one of God’s creatures, that every time I perform, may it be for Him. And let me re-create again and yet again without repeating myself. And when I play, for dancers to dance to my drums. May there always be communication.”