When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.

Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than speed.

I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.

Relax. Be yourself. Play a lot.

There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.

I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.

It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.

Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't you want to play guitar?

When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.

Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different, ... I always want to find different ways to do something

I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.

Tomorrow belongs to those who are sincerely learning and loving today.

There’s nothing wrong with accumulating wealth, receiving recognition for your efforts, and having some power and status--what’s wrong is when you think that’s who you are.

As long as we confider failure as an option, success is not going to be the only one choice.

The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.

A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

For none can express thee, though all should approve thee. I love thee so, Dear, that I only can love thee.

My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.

I pursue through my research on speed and on my study of the organisation of the revolution of the means of transportation.

I really do not understand the members of my generation.