I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.

I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.

When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved.

I got a standard box. I don't never want nothing special. Then if I drop my box, I can borrow somebody else's.

Today we have made a fetish of choice

This is the only way that you can hope to survive. Because life... is not a movie. Everyone lies. Good guys lose. And love... does not conquer all.

I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

You can show your daughter by the way you love and honor your wife that she should never settle for less.

But who does hawk at eagles with a dove?

There are in life as many aspects as attitudes towards it, and aspects change with attitudes.

I don't talk to reporters, because they're gonna write what they want to write, so let 'em write what they want to write.

Love wants everything without condition, love has no law.

We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.