Most of the reggae awareness is still among music industry people and people who are already into all types of music.

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.

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

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.

The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal.

Now that we have that settled, I want to focus my attention on something else or should I say someone else... That someone else is you.

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

I believe the Scriptures teach that there's a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of sins that, yeah, the place of punishment is called hell.

Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention.

Purity is something that comes from another world. It's a radiance that enters into this world of transformation and change.

If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

I spoke to ears that refused to hear.

Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.