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Link is a quiet man to meet- easy and courteous. His music, though, betrays that deep inside he gets very very mean very often. I remember being made very uneasy the first time I heard Rumble , and yet very excited by the guitar sound. And his voice! He sounds like a cross between Jagger and Van Morrison, even sometimes like Robbie Robertson. We met him in New York in 1970 while recording Who's Next.... this later inspired the b-side Wasp Man, a tune we dedicated to Link Wray.

If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen.

Rumble is the best instrumental ever.

Link Wray is the all-time legend.

Learning to play the guitar is a combination of mental and motor skill acquisition. And to develop motor skill, repetition is essential... Whenever musicians have trouble executing a passage, they generally tend to blame themselves for not having enough talent. Actually, all that's wrong is they don't know where their fingers are supposed to go...you should learn the piece in your head before you play it. And when you do play it, play it so slow that there's no possibility of making a mistake.

Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know.

The Telecaster has two sounds - a good one and a bad one.

To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.

I play the guitar. I taught myself how to play the guitar, which was a bad decision... because I didn't know how to play it, so I was a shitty teacher. I would never have went to me.

You shouldn't hear the guitar by itself. It should be part of the drums... You only notice the guitar when it's not there.

Practice like the Devil.

Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.

We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.

We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?

Elmore James only knew one lick, but you had the feeling that he meant it.

I called Leo Fender, the dead guy, a dork. Now I'll never get an endorsement.

Bad music can make you weak.

Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether.