From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code..
Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear..
I'll quote the truth wherever I find it thank you..
You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a d….
Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice..
If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical langu….
Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel..
In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages..
I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His music sounds like a ….
Music comes from the musician, not the instrument..
The silence between two notes is as beautiful and meaningful as the notes themselves..
I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow..
There is no such thing as a wrong note..
People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them ….
You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it!.
I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart..
Don't play what's there, play what's not there..
You've got to care about the music...You'd better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money. And you'd sure better not be doing it bec….
I just want to get the most money I can..
In order to expose a system though, you need whistleblowers..
Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person..