Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most im….

There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and ins….

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….

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..

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….

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.

Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite..

When I die, bury me on my stomach and let the world kiss my ass..

I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss….

As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it..

Music is the shorthand of emotion..

I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than so….

Neil Young and Barry Friedman had stolen a Buffalo Springfield sign off the steamroller for Barrys house. They put it up. We all looked at it on the ….

I would. I'm just too, I'm kind of, a pussy, I guess. That's the problem. But, no, I'd love to. I think everybody should do open mics. I think it's v….

The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves..

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid..

If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public k….

Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew everything else o….

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and h….

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands..

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy..