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We may be human, but we're still animals.
Find what you're best at and exaggerate it.
Make an exercise out of everything you can’t do.
The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.
I don't believe in 'greatest'. I believe in favorites.
The tone is in your fingers, not in your amp or effects.
Critisism is just reflection of the person that speaking
Play slow and perfect - that’s the way to becoming a virtuoso.
I like my voice, but I can't deliver as much as I wish I could.
The only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.
If I remain true to what's in my heart, that's all the success I need.
The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.
Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.
The cool thing about playing is that the more you do it, the better you get.
When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.
If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.
Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.
You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.
Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.
Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.
I was always one of those guys who was a seeker after truth. I want to know what's going on.
It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.
My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar.
I'm always pursuing knowledge; I'm a seeker of spiritual equilibrium - and music is a big part of that.
Ray and I do not draw salaries. Any profits will be re-invested into marketing the music we believe in.
Ray and I do not draw salaries, Any profits will be re-invested into marketing the music we believe in.
I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff.
You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.
When Frank Zappa would get an idea for a song, he just did it. He didn't wait for anybody or expect anyone to do it.
It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.
A good solo is like a book. It will start out in a phrase, it will go on in paragraphs, and then it will have a great ending.
If you want to play something that you can't, you need to see and hear yourself doing it in your minds eye. It will start to happen
I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.
I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.
I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.
What I look for in music is artistry, sincerity, and simplicity, and Tom Waits has all of that. I want to make a connection to the creator.
When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.
I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout was just what I put in the magazine at the time, but for me it was every waking moment.
I wanted to be a composer before anything else. And my sister was listening to Led Zeppelin in the other room! When I heard that, it was a game-changer.
The older I get, the more I just like plugging directly into my amp. I'm tired of trying to impress myself with weird sounds. It's about the notes more.
I can tell you this: I'm an extremely passionate individual. I try to be careful how I display it because you never know how people are going to take it.
My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today, gone later today.
As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on a particular genre that I never heard before.
A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.
I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around 1 pm I'm home and do music the rest of the day.
Most of my records are very dense, composition-heavy, and there's bits of different kinds of music like an acoustic ballad, instrumental trio pieces, and vocal tracks.
I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.
It just happens in life, where you resonate with a particular artist. Or it can be a kind of food or a fashion - you discover it and it gives you a whole new lease on life.
So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.
That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.