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What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.
I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically.
I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.
If you make the same mistake 3 times, that becomes ‘your arrangement’
I'm quite reflective - I listen to music, I read, I walk with Django.
We had a day off here yesterday and I just sat in my room and played.
Almost too hot for skinny jeans, the impossible becomes the possible.
Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it.
Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.
Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.
I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.
It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease.
I know the rules of the game, you hit it once, then break away clean.
I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do.
I pulled the Johnny character from the Jamaican Johnny Too Bad thing.
There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.
It gives me a good feeling to know that people out there really care.
For the longest time, I was uninterested in dealing with EMI Records.
You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation.
I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
When we grew up, Australia was the land of opportunity; it really was.
There's more to playing the guitar than being able to split your legs.
We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.
For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.
In many cases bands have a lot to overcome, business being what it is.
"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.
The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.
Surf music is played through a Showman amp with a Stratocaster guitar.
I don't want to get rich. I just want to play my music for the people.
All the great guitarists have a spirit-a way they play and don't play.
Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
I love money, I love women, I like to work hard and I don't use drugs.
My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff.
Until having kids, I had never really thought about mortality so much.
I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.
Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.
I'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar.
Schlepping all of the equipment is the part I hate more than anything.
I suppose that when I started to play the lute it was fairly esoteric.
I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.
I don't have any rock star demeanor to me. I just can't pull that off.
My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.
Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.
Spank me, whip me, let me come back home. Break out the leather, baby.
A man can never have too many pairs of sunglasses or too many guitars.
Playing in Japan for thousands of people was like playing on the moon.
One reason I rarely listen to radio is they don't play our music much.
Jimi... He was the gov'nor and that's it. He was brilliant, wasn't he?
A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.