I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
~ Elvis Presley
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
~ J.S. Bach
There is two kinds of music, the good and bad. I play the good kind.
~ Louis Armstrong
You don't need any brains to listen to music.
~ Luciano Pavarotti
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
~ Ludwig Van Beethoven
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
~ Billy Joel
Talent works, genius creates.
~ Robert Schumann
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -- for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
~ John Lennon
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
~ Igor Stravinsky
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
~ Victor Hugo
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
~ Aldous Huxley
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
~ Ludwig Van Beethoven
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
If music be the food of love, play on.
~ Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
~ John Keats
I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
~ Martin Luther
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
~ Bill Cosby
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
~ Plato
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
"I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart."-Waylon Jennings (1937-2002)
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -Decca Recording Company rejecting the Beatles, 1962
"It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now ..." - Jerry Garcia / Grateful Dead
"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception." (When asked about his theory of relativity) - Albert Einstein
"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." - Charlie "YardBird" Parker
"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another." -Frank Zappa
"... Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable on transmuting emotion into music..." Carlos Santana
"... Lightnin' Hopkins taught us, "the rubber on a wheel is faster than the rubber on a heel" and Muddy Waters taught us "you don't have to be the best one; just be a good 'un" .. that just about says it all, always strive to be a good 'un..." - Billy F. Gibbons - Z.Z. Top
"I don't know anything about music, In my line you don't have to." -Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
" DIZZ FOR PRES " - a bumber sticker seen in 1956 during the U.S. Presidential Election when Dizzy Gillespie decided to run for president
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix
"Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity" - Barney Kessel - Jazz Guitar
"Wes Montgomery played impossible things on the guitar because it was never pointed out to him that they were impossible. " - Ronnie Scott - Jazz saxophonist
"... when I saw Jimi Hendrix I knew immediately that this guy was the real thing ... and when he played it was like a rough sketch of what he was going to become ... this guy was our generation, and he wasn't in a suit .. he played a Howlin' Wolf song 'Killing Floor', and then we (The Cream) had to carry on the set. It was pretty hard to follow ... " - Eric Clapton / Yardbirds / Cream / Blind Faith / Derek and the Dominoes
"Most of us go to our graves with our music still inside of us." -unknown
"Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules get too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion" - Slash / Guns 'n Roses
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." -Voltaire (1694-1778)
"...regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going ..." - Wes Montgomery
' It's hard to describe, because on one hand you want your solo to be spontaneous. On the other hand, I feel a good guitar solo should be somewhat of a composition in itself. So, you sort of toggle back and forth between the concept of trying to initiate flow and composing. I think it's a combination of both" - Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter - guitar - Steely Dan / Doobie Brothers
"I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs," - Lenny Breau - Jazz Guitar
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosphy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents." - Ludwig van Beethoven
"..."a good player can make any guitar sound good" - Michael Bloomfield - guitar Paul Butterfield Blues Band / Electric Flag
"... I think people overemphasize the importance of gear in their search for tone. Your sound comes from how you pick and dampen the strings, and from your attack as much as anything..." - Eric Johnson
"... the biggest difference between me and other guitar players is that I don't use effects to color my guitar parts, I create guitar parts using effects ... they're a crucial part of what I do ... I don't consider effects a crutch ... they're part of the art..." - The Edge - U2
"... music is an immediate art; it's always happening right now ..." - Sam Andrew - guitar - Big Brother & The Holding Company - The Kozmic Blues Band - Moby Grape
"Little Wing is like one of these beautiful girls that come around sometimes ... you play your gig; it's the same thing as the olden days, and these beautiful girls come around.. you do actually fall in love with them because that's the only love you can have. It's not always the physical thing of "Oh, there's one over there ...", it's not one of those scenes. They actually tell you something. They release different things inside themselves ... "Little Wing" was a very sweet girl that came around that gave me her whole life and more if I wanted it ... " - Jimi Hendrix
"... guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear ..." - Joe (Sach) Satriani
"Bach gave us God's Word. Mozart gave us God's laughter. Beethoven gave us God's fire. God gave us Music that we might pray without words." - quote from outside an old opera house
"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best." - Henry Van Dyke
"When you strum a guitar you have everything - rhythm, bass, lead and melody" - David Gilmore / Pink Floyd
"... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he actually arranged the works of Mozart and other classical composers for guitar, something that had never been done before ... Segovias' style is not slick or contrived, but it's still very clean and his timing is impeccable ... it's got a feeling of casual elegance, as if he's sitting around the house in Spain with a jug of wine, just playing from the heart." - Roger McGuinn / Byrds
"...You can't over-hype Sam Phillips ... think of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King: if you were associated with just one of those names, you'd be immortal" - Andy McLenon
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"Go and Say Goodbye" by the Buffalo Springfield stands as one of the first examples of what would later be branded country rock" - Chris Hillman / Byrds / Manassas / Desert Rose Band
"...after using your stuff on a jug band full of instruments, all I can say is Thank You Dr. Duck !..." - John Sebastian / Lovin' Spoonful
"The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, "No."" -Aaron Copland
"Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything." - Joe Pass / Jazz Guitar
|"... I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play ..." - Ozzy Osbourne
"Music is an outburst of the soul." -Frederick Deluis
"... everyone was using tiny brushes and doing watercolors, while Jimi Hendrix was painting galactic scenes in Cinemascope. We are working in a field of mystical resonance, sound and vibration... that's what makes people cry, laugh and feel their hair stand up ... " - Carlos Santana
"... Clear Channel owns all the major radio stations and venues. Most musicians aren't aware that a few people control so much of what we hear..." Susan Tedeschi
"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself." -Johann Sebastian Bach
"Whenever you study composition you inevitably encounter Bach right off the bat. You can't get across the room without running into him and the other greats. Analyzing Bach absolutely influenced my jazz playing." - Howard Roberts - Jazz Guitar
"... Elvis Presleys' first album ... had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew everything else out. It changed the whole landscape of music" - Brian Setzer - Stray Cats / Brian Setzer Orchestra
"Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues" - B.B. King
"I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder " - Eric Clapton / Yardbirds / Cream / Blind Faith / Derek and the Dominoes
"...it works ... (Dr.Ducks Ax Wax & String Lube) .. makes the strings last longer ..." -Larry Coryell
"I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality." -H. A. Overstreet
"When Lonnie Mack came out with the guitar instrumental "Memphis" I thought, Oh God, finally somebody we guitar players can relate to !" - Dicky Betts / Allman Bros. Band
"Without music, life would be a mistake." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"... We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the Grateful Dead meets Buck Owens some nights, because we'll go off on little adventures and sometimes we do crash the bus! ..." - Brad Paisley
"It's the opportunity to play something completely different, responding to what happened just before you started to play, and I love that." - Larry Carlton - Jazz influenced guitar player
"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays." -Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"... Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful..." - Ritchie Blackmore / Deep Purple / Rainbow
"Your talking to someone who really understands rock music." -Tipper Gore
"I think I got the idea of tapping watching Jimmy Page do his "Heartbreaker" solo back in 1971. He was doing a pull-off to an open string, and I thought wait a minute, open string ... pull off. I can do that, but what if I use my finger as the nut and move it around ?" ... I just kind of took it and ran with it - Eddie Van Halen
"Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics." -Pietro Mascagni
"...it's great! I used it (Dr.Ducks Ax Wax) to restore the finish of my 370/12/RM and I love the way it turned out!.." - Roger McGuinn / Byrds
"Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule." -Samuel Butler
"...I liken feedback to the effect of when you go surfing; you can get pummeled by a wave, but if you balance the forces right, you can have a dandy ride ... that's pretty much what feedback is..." - Jorma Kaukonen / Jefferson Airplane / Hot Tuna
"I don't use all my fingers, I can play chords that way but to me it sounds sloppy, I don't like the sound that I get. Joe Pass does it very well, but he uses more of a classical technique. Sometimes I use a finger and the pick for pairs of notes, together or alternately. Lenny Breau plays a harmonic under the chord, he showed me how to do it but I don't do it too well. By making the harmonic on the fourth or fifth string, the bottom voice moves up an octave in between the other notes, where it wouldn't be possible to finger them. He gets a very good close harmony sound that way. He uses a thumb pick all the time, so that makes it easier for him and he plays fast with it." - Tal Farlow - Jazz Guitar
" I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever mood strikes me the way Keith Jarrett does on piano." - Lenny Breau - Jazz Guitar
"I've always stuck with the same basic kind of Gibson, like the model I play now (1976), an ES-175. It's the only kind of electric I've ever played when I had a choice. I've had this one since 1963. Back in my Synanon days, I didn't have a guitar of my own; all I had was a solidbody rock and roll guitar that belonged to Synanon. I was playing a gig at a local club with it when this guy named Mike Peak came in and saw me playing jazz with a rock guitar. A few months later, on my birthday, I came home and there was this brand new ES- 175 that he had bought for me. He was in the construction business and played a little guitar himself and just felt that I should have the proper kind of instrument. It's the only electric I've used since then. - Joe Pass / Jazz Guitar
"My style is Driven by improvisation -- not knowing what will come moment by moment. The other thing is, I like to play like a singer. I hate mindless tinkling guitar. " - Howard Roberts - Jazz Guitar
"I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it and you need them to hear it." -James Taylor
"...the blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists..." - Jimmy Page / Yardbirds / Led Zepplin
"...you think back to Tele players, and James Burton was the one who started it all. He inspired Roy Nichols (guitar for Merle Haggard & the Strangers), Don Rich (guitar for Buck Owens & the Buckaroos), and guys like that to push the envelope and expand on that sound... I really identify with that kind of thinking ... those guys to me are the reason why any of us do this.." - Brad Paisley
"... As far as being a 'player's player', you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina, and you can forget about it. The world is full of amazing guitar players, and you know it, and I know it ... it's a humbling experience..." - Mark Knopfler / Dire Straits
"... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us -- certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style. The result, I think, is pretty interesting ... we don't expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top. As long as we can play, we'll play, regardless of what it's for, who it's for or anything. It's fun for us -- that's the important thing." - Jerry Garcia - guitar - Grateful Dead
"There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it." -Ron Wood / Rolling Stones / Faces
"Country music is three chords and the truth." -Harlan Howard
"... I just didn't know what direction people want, you know music was going down a path, and I couldn't turn on a radio without being disgusted completely. And now it's just gotten to the point where I can't listen to anything, it's trashy. It's just a hundred channels of garbage all over. And not just here, it's in England as well. It's almost just like a global effort to knock the sense out of you if you're a musician (laughs). There's not any little morsel for musicians to latch on to. It's all glossy, lipstick s--t. More tits and bare midriffs. Unless you go to a blues club, or some outrageous, hip dive somewhere that nobody knows about until the night before, the pickings are slim for inspiration... I still listen to Django Reinhardt, his catalog. I'm just catching up with that after several years of not really listening to him proper. You know he's the greatest... it's the fear thing. ... but now I'm getting used to it... He (Django Reinhardt) was God. Just amazing" - Jeff Beck / Yardbirds / Jeff Beck Group
"Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django with an entourage of friends. He always traveled with a large group--carried his own admirers with him, the most sinister-looking bunch of hoodlums you've ever seen. I walked up and offered to buy him a drink. That seemed to be the right thing to do... he was the first really brilliant solo guitarist I ever became aware of, I had records of his when I was 10 years old. It just blew my mind that anyone could play a guitar like that. Still does." - Charlie Byrd / Jazz Guitar
"... hearing Andres Segovia in person was quite a revelation ... It was a knockout..." - Julian Bream
"... Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world..." - Barney Kessel
"... When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard..." - Bob Dylan
"Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world." - George Harrison - Guitar Beatles
"Jimi Hendrix could play better than our best guys and he did it while he was dancing while being completely outrageous." - David Crosby - Guitar Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
"Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar." - Dizzy Gillespie - Jazz Musician
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"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. -Victor Hugo
"...my policy is not how fast you play, it's not how much you play but it's what you play and where you play it ... play for the commercial side of the music ... the word I still use today is called "simplicity" .. it is so important that you use simplicity in your playing and in your music ..." - James Burton / Lead Guitar Elvis Presley, Ricky Nelson, EmmyLou Harris, John Denver
"... I remember working with Brian Eno, and the idea was to keep this two-chord mantra going, keep it going, keep it going as long as we could stand it, and then bam ! .. we made this chord change and it was dramatic ... songs like that fascinate me ... - The Edge - U2
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." -Aldous Huxley
"...Everyone has their own sound, and if you're heard enough, folks will come to recognize it. Style however, is a different thing. Try to express your own ideas. It's much more difficult to do, but the rewards are there if you're good enough to pull it off ..." - Chet Atkins
"The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it." -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"... When I heard "Pride and Joy" by Stevie Ray Vaughn on the radio, I just said "Hallelujah" .. he was just so good and strong and he would not be denied... he single handedly brought guitar and blues oriented music back to the marketplace" - Dickey Betts / Allman Bros. Band
"I got a standard box. I don't never want nothing special. Then if I drop my box, I can borrow somebody else's." - Wes Montgomery - Jazz Guitar (his "standard box" was the hollowbody Gibson L5-CES -cutaway electric Spanish)
"The idea was I'd never amount to anything in music, The theme there was that I was talented, but I wouldn't work hard enough to do anything with it." - Mose Allison - Jazz/Blues Piano Songwriter Ultra Hipster Extrordinaire
"I especially always like it when Jimi Hendrix would play the song and then he'd go on to, uh, Chainsaw Massacre Tazmanian Devil Aurora Borealis Galaxy - I like it when he'd start with the feedback. And I saw Stevie Ray do it one time too. I'm sure he did it many times but I only saw him do it one time were he where the guitar became like an Aurora Borealis and all this colors of sound were screaming out of it even though he wasn't putting his fingers on it. That's kinda like invoking ghosts or something and that's my favorite part that I miss about Jimi is when he would open up certain channels and let certain demons and angels dance together, you know what I mean - that it was beyond 'B' flat or 'C' flat" - Carlos Santana
"Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off." -Bryan Ferry / Roxy Music
"Lenny Breau dazzled me with his extraordinary guitar playing... I wish the world had the opportunity to experience his artistry." -George Benson - Jazz Guitar
"Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously." -Henry Mille
"... I too once belived in the heavier gauge string as a superior tone source. However, thanks to the graciousness of B.B. King I learned that a lighter-gauge string offers superior playing comfort ... try it, you may like it ..." ,- Billy F. Gibbons - Z.Z. Top
"...protect your hands! Some fans demonstrate their enthusiam with bone-crushing hand shakes. My former teacher Julian Bream often bows Japanese style with his hands behind his back. Smart man !..." - Liona Boyd
"... shortly before she died Janis Joplin gave me the Gibson Hummingbird she recorded "Me and Bobbby McGee" on ... Janis was a good guitar player, for her purposes .. she just wanted to play along with her songs, and she had a real pure and nice style for that ..." - Sam Andrew - guitar - Big Brother & The Holding Company - The Kozmic Blues Band - Moby Grape
"...some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that... " Carlos Santana
"... Albert Lee and I have become real close friends, and he comes out anytime I'm in the L.A. area, and he'll sit in for the whole show ! ... we've got a habit of doing that ... in Austin Redd Volkaert does the same thing ... it's fun ... I love to make it a guitar thing and the audience doesn't know any different - they think he's some new band member they don't know. They don't realize Albert's the reason we all play Teles ! ..." - Brad Paisley
"...Dr.Ducks Ax Wax is Good Stuff ... and you can quote me on it ..." - Albert Lee
"It's a marvelous feeling when someone says "I want to do this song of yours" because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after." -Mary Chapin Carpenter
"There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp." - Jeff Beck / Yardbirds / Jeff Beck Group
"If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterwards." - Joe Pass / Jazz Guitar
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. -Isaac Stern
"I did several shows with Jimi Hendrix, that's when I got to know him better, I knew of him, I met him [when he was playing] with Little Richard... And he was kind of quiet, shy, he didn't open up too much, but there were questions as we all ask each other. You know, "how do you do this" and "why do you do that..." We had very small discussions on things like that. And he was very polite, I thought [he was] a very nice guy..." - B.B. King
"Music is the art of thinking with sounds." -Jules Combarieu
"When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices..." - Andres Segovia
"Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below." -Joseph Addison
"2,400,000 Americans play the accordion - hopefully not at the same time." -unknown
"...I love Dr.Ducks Ax Wax ... Glossily Yours ...." - Elliot Easton / Cars
"... we kept moving forward and didn't try to recreate the past .. the approach to each album was radically different every time. Many bands would have some success and, because they were locked into having a single - something we didn't have to worry about - they had to make sure there was something similar on the next album ... that was never the idea with Led Zeppelin .. the goal was to keep that spark of spontaneity at all times ..." - Jimmy Page - Led Zeppelin
"Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it." -Liam Gallagher
"I remember first seeing Barney Kessel, in the 1940s, standing on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, in his cowboy boots, sun glasses and hipster threads, holding his guitar case man, you just knew that cat could wail!'" - Anita O'Day / Jazz Vocals
"My audience has developed so that they come to listen and are quiet, Thus I can work in a limited volume range and explore all the subtleties that can happen, which is my favorite part of the music." - Kenny Burrell / Jazz Guitar
"Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use what ever other influences I wanted, but never to copy ... that was a great rare gift he gave me: believe in myself, right from the start of my recording career... if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field" - Johnny Cash
"...Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by ..." - Dolly Parton
"...The world has lost a legend, and I have lost a friend. Johnny Cash was the rare soul who could be both..." - Emmylou Harris
"...I think it was a modest thing I did (Fahrenheit 9/11) ... this is an election year ... I'm not telling them how to vote. I'm saying get information about the issues ... at first there's just silence, then there's 'Yeah!' and then there's 'Boo' ... I have never seen a reaction like this, in all my years of touring ... Clear Channel can't threaten to not play my records because they are not going to play them anyway ..." - Linda Ronstadt
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"...the music you make is shaped by what you play it on ... if you feel that you're not getting enough out of a song, change the instrument - go from an acoustic to an electric or vice versa, or try an open tuning ... do something to shake it up..." - Mark Knopfler / Dire Straits
",,, all around it would have to be Eddie Cochran, because it wasn't just music with him; it was his guitar playing, his look, his singing, I'd say that, all things considered, he's probably my favorite "cat" of all time" - Brian Setzer - Stray Cats / Brian Setzer Orchestra
"I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.'" - Eric Clapton - Guitar - Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek & The Dominoes
"People ask me to describe how I play, and the most obvious answer is that I'm a jazz influenced guitar player. But I'm not a jazz guitar player. Wes Montgomery was a jazz guitarist, Joe Pass was a jazz guitarist (laughs). " - Larry Carlton - Jazz influenced guitar player
"I remember that first week at the Whisky and the gigs we (The Buffalo Springfield) did with the Byrds, We could really smoke ! That band never got on record as bad, and as hard as we were. Live we sounded like the Rolling Stones..." - Steven Stills / Buffalo Springfield / Crosby, Stills & Nash / Manassas
"I don't even know if I can take credit for writing "Cliffs of Dover" ... it was just there for me one day ... literally wrote in five minutes ... kind of a gift from a higher place that all of us are eligible for. We just have to listen for it and be available to receive it" - Eric Johnson
"I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already started playing that music, and the audience response had been pretty good because those songs are so melodic. I knew it would be something that would be appealing; I wasn't thinking that it would make the top of the pop charts or anything like that." - Charlie Byrd - Jazz Guitar
"... I don't like to go into the studio with all the songs worked out and planned before hand ... you've got to give the band something to use its imagination on as well. That can make a very ordinary song come alive into something totally different ... the X-factor - so important in rock and roll - which is the feel.." - Keith Richards / Rolling Stones
"... I thought 'Stairway' crystallized the essence of Led Zeppelin. It had everything there, and showed the band at its best ... every musician wants to do something that will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did that with 'Stairway To Heaven' ..." - Jimmy Page / Yardbirds / Led Zepplin
