I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!.
Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice..
There are notes between notes, you know..
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution..
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams..
The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with rel….
Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world..
You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket).
I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time..
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer..
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music..
Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows..
If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough..
It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy..
No music can fill the gaping void ... at least in my experience only faith. Only faith..
What reason has one for existing other than to be involved with what is actually being created in your particular time?.
For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape..
... Jimmy Page bought a Les Paul because he liked mine, but it was stolen, so he bought a Standard everybody raved about .. that's what he's famous f….
I first met Jimmy Page in London in 1961, and he was listening to James Burton, Scotty Moore and Cliff Gallup with Gene Vincent, as was I ... these w….
... all of the great sounds that James Burton and Jimmy Bryant were getting, came out of Telecasters.
The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling th….