Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous.

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

When something is not good, it's bad. Period

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

New technologies make it possible for even the mass marketer to assume the role of a small proprietor, doing business again wit individuals, one at a time.

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.

You know he can’t save you, right? In the real world? That guy, right there.

FAITH is the only known antidote for FAILURE!

Perseverance, my dear Lord. Keeps honour bright.