I grew up playing the guitar. I started when I was nine, and by the time I was nine and a half or ten, I was doing seven or eight hours' practice eve….

You can't think and play. If you think about what you're playing the playing becomes stilted. You have to just focus on the music I feel, concenctrat….

If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward..

I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note..

Learn everything you know in all keys..

My father would say, 'Play a scale,' and I'd play one and he'd say, 'What about the rest? There must be one above,' so we'd figure them out. I'd star….

Listen, listen, listen..

Using drugs didn't help me to play, all it did was to hang me up for about fifteen years..

Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything..

I'm a little tired. I haven't been out for more than five or six weeks in the States, and that's really a lot for me. You know, to me, music is impor….