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I love performing, and connecting with an audience never gets old for me.
Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing.
You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day
Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.
The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.
We've been involved in a lot of albums that were really rushed at the end.
he signed his work .. you could always tell when it was Herb Ellis playing
I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
Elvis' songs will always be there, and I hope mine will be after I'm gone.
It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.
My mind never left 20, because once it does, that's when you start to die.
I don't like to use the word 'fans;' I call them 'Dick Dale music lovers.'
I will always love the guitar as long as I'm alive, the Blues is my heart.
I don't play for the guitarists in the audience. I play for the musicians.
What's in the past is in the past... let it be, let it be. We all grow up.
We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.
I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.
My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.
I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues
I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at.
The guitar was not treated very seriously as a concert recital instrument.
I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy.
I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.
Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.
But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals.
The only thing I use the Rolling Stone for is toilet paper when I run out.
I've never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that.
The main thing in my life...is that I really need to go home and practice.
The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color.
I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.
I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.
If you want to do rock and roll, forget about those who've come after '65.
The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
If someone sees me with what looks like a beer, it's always zero per cent.
From the time I was 12 until I was 21, Chuck Berry was my favorite artist.
I've recorded lots of projects, but just haven't bothered to release them.
Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.
When you pick up a guitar, you don't put down your First Amendment rights.
You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day.
The Hamsters really kick ass - Slim is one of your greatest guitar players
I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality
I do know the older I get, the more I'm referencing music I heard as a kid.
[H]istorians have powerful imaginations, which are essential and dangerous.
I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.
I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.
I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.
I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.
There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.
I'm a married man and I've got two children, and you have to do sacrifices.
There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.