Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

It doesn't take much to be good, but it takes a lot to be real good.

If you're really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.

ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie".

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.

Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly.

We are new creation in Jesus Christ.

Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant.

Better would be good. Because if she felt a little less like she’d been run over by a truck, she could jump on Dr. Hottie.

Democracy and tyranny are not distant relatives. They’re bedfellows.”-General John JamesCommandant, USMCDecember 11th, 2032

It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.

We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus "following the market". We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.

When you catch what you're after, it's gone.

The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.

International rock star - gravy maker extraordinaire.

What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it.