A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

Record the album after the tour.

My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer.

It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.

You said you like it on top. I spent all day imagining it.

We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.

I'd like to dividemyself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flowerof every cherry tree.

Hockey is my life, you know. If I do not play hockey, I do not know what I do.

It makes a world of difference when you start with an amazing script.

When it's hard and you are doubtful, give more.

Boxing is always serious. Nothing comical or funny about boxing.

Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame.

We don't need to reject or disparage technology. We need to put it in its place.

You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.