Stop contemplating and start celebratingYeah, you gotta live before you die.

I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that.

People used to trade their guitars to get new ones; I never traded anything.

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

If you feel people getting on about what you are doing, it gives you a lift.

You know, I'm not ready to go anywhere. I still have more to do in Paramore.

Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.

Trump's ignorance in environmental science is a threat to the entire planet.

Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.

There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

My philosophy is that on a scale of 1 to 10, I will go to 15. No matter what!

Whatever you do, don't take shortcuts. It's great advice to take and live by.

Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal.

Take me home tonight, listen honey, just like Ronnie sang, be my little baby.

I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.

Many times in music, if you are given limitations, it expands the creativity.

I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.

The only way you can get Scotty Moore's tone is with a big hollowbody guitar.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow

The cool thing about our fans is that they're not just passive concert goers.

That perfect day, that magic moment that we're all waiting for, is right now.

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job.

Half the bands I guarantee wouldn't at this point want Nuno to open for them.

Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.

I never went to any high school dances or proms unless I was playing in them.

I'm one of those guys who likes to piddle around in the garage and fix stuff.

When you're writing you're affected by everything that's going on around you.

I've never stopped working, and I still have 'pinch me' moments all the time.

All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.

I am excited to get on tour, if I'm speaking to the Phish fans. I can't wait.

By the way he carried himself, you really thought that Bon Scott was immortal.

All the best songs are, I think, the easiest write because they just come out.

Don't be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best come around.

We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.

I was lucky enough to be down at the studio the day John Paul Jones came down.

If you're going to be mad, at least let the people know what you're mad about.

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

You can have a bad day, but as soon as you set foot on that stage it's joyous.

I love Richmond. I think growing up here had a profound influence on my music.

I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

Although music comes from a very personal place, talent is meant to be shared.

My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!

I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

I don't eat cereal actually... Frosted Flakes... that's as close as I can get.

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