The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar taste and aspirations and like music as much as you do.

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players.... male and female.

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. ...both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.

I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

I've never stopped learning.

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played

The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique

I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

What I've always lacked is a really strong band to back me up.

After creating the heaven, the earth, the ocean, and the entire animal kingdom, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was "Don't."

Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare.

Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.

Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.

The Brits always favor the underdog. There's an eccentricity to us, and I think you can see that through the fash- ion and the music and the way people look.

The trouble is people leave too much to luck. They get married and then trust to luck. They should be sure in the first place.

Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!

Jerkery knows no financial pedigree.

When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.

I work out at Runyon Canyon almost every morning.