My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her to Symphony Hall, and the orchestra was playing. W….
Even if the world ends, the Music will still survive....
I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us.
I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff..
Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World.
Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all….
The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence..
The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I….
Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school..
I believe that regardless of how many people you've listened to or emulated over the years, your sound is you and what you really feel inside..
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music..
I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture t….
I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else..
All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive..
Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues.
George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finall….
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me..
Judge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment. The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you ….
Lenny Breau dazzled me with his extraordinary guitar playing... I wish the world had the opportunity to experience his artistry..
You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make something memorable, that's what….
The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over..