Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!.
Hendrix was back there with a few of the others who were like my training wheels ... hearing him as a teenager taught me to look at the guitar in a d….
We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer..
I tell my students, 'It's an important tradition and you have to go back and hear this music and learn its language all the way through. How are you ….
I never really sounded like Bird, but that was my mission. I didn't care if people said that I copied him; I loved Bird's playing so much. But Mingus….
I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500..
What is so important is that you play for the artist and for the record and for the song ... everything else falls into place ... my solo has to be a….
My policy is not how fast you play, it's not how much you play but it's what you play and where you play it ... play for the commercial side of the m….
A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a symphony. M….
I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing into….
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thi….
And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look ….
Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfu….
I intend to put them on the charts..
I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come..
There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one..
My life has always been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it on the public. The main thing is to l….
The themes I sing about tend to be centered on love, but in the most total, general way 360 degrees of love..
Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to the….
... I think the idea of crossing over is the ultimate expression of being ... Maybe it's time to play rock and roll on disco ... maybe it's time to p….
Another guitar player who had a tremendous influence on my life was Howard Roberts ... I'd listened to a lot of Tal Farlow, Johnny Smith and Kenny Bu….