When I first colored my hair, my mother loved it. I got kicked out of school when I was 15, just for my hair.

- Tommy Bolin

I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step.

- Tommy Bolin

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

- Tommy Bolin

I can't do anything but play guitar.

- Tommy Bolin

A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient.

- Tommy Bolin

I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.

- Tommy Bolin

Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace.

- Tommy Bolin

I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what I'm playing.

- Tommy Bolin

My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything.

- Tommy Bolin