Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.

If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.

Learn everything you know in all keys.

I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note.

Using drugs didn't help me to play, all it did was to hang me up for about fifteen years.

Listen, listen, listen.

If you can live with less of what you have. You can be more of who you are.

Aging will create the music of the coming century.

A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy.

All we have to do is to go onward and upward, and keep the commandments of our Father and God; and he will confound our enemies.

We never find what we set out hearts on. We ought to be glad of that.

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

There are a couple of projects that are sort of on the plate; I haven't closed any of them yet. I'm trying to figure out which one is going to be the best one for me.

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.