Quotes on Guitar Music

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's Time for You To Go") popped into my head while I was falling in love with someone I knew couldn't stay with me. The words are about honesty and freedom inside the heart.