“When I first started, I didn't know what I was doing. I was such a - l...” — Dr. John Quote

“When I first started, I didn't know what I was doing. I was such a - like a kid that got into things before I was ready. I was like the original learning-on-the-job-experience guy. All I knew was, if I hired the best musicians, I got the best arranger, and got the right songs for the right singer, I had did my job correctly.”

“I was criticized by some people for my first album because they said I was taking sacred music. They knew nothing about what I was doing. That was no sacred music; that's music I wrote.”

“Like the tangled veins of cypress roots that meander this way and that in the swamp, everything in New Orleans is interrelated, wrapped around itself in ways that aren't always obvious.”

“I'm successful financially because I treat finances correctly.”

“Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.”

“There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly.”