Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God..
I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite ….
I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows..
Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!.
I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of f….
.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive.
I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome..
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world ….
Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing..
The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen..
Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity..
All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different..
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy a….
Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out..
A song is anything that can walk by itself..
To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better..
You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live..
We not only grew up on Be-Bop; Be-Bop raised us. For my generation, Be-Bop came on like a light bulb going flash behind the eyes.For us, it was not o….
Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to..
What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order.".
Music is the space between the notes..