A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere..

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid.

The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over..

A good player can make any guitar sound good..

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated..

Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free in….

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall..

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true..

Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face..

She was a singer who had to take every note above A with her eyebrows..

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….

Ornette Coleman wasn't sure whether he was going to continue with Charlie Haden-Charlie had some personal problems. I said "You've got to be kidding!….

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating..

Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it ….

I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed..

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent..

I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast..

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding..

Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture ….

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate..

There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything.