I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play..

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are littl….

I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time..

Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going..

Never play anything the same way twice..

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano..

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot..

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it..

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says..

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring..

I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it..

Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music..

I like the girls to match the upholstery of the car..

There is something in the spirit of song...that fires the soul in a way that it can't otherwise be touched or fired..

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between note….

The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar that matters so much as the music its….

Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style..

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art..

Lenny Breau is one of the true geniuses of the guitar. I suppose he is a musician's musician. His knowledge of the instrument and the music is so vas….

When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'..

Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it al….