Hearing Andres Segovia in person was quite a revelation ... It was a knockout.

We are all the same. We have the same hopes, fears, strengths, and weaknesses.

I just hope you have as much fun letting it spin as I did putting it together.

I prefer playing in the studio because you have much more control over things.

I don't always feel like a million dollars, but I try not to let anybody know.

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

Believe me, when I saw 'Family Guy' do the bit on 'Africa,' I howled laughing.

I've known Chicago for 50 years; we used to play shows at the Avalon Ballroom.

There aren't very many clubs. There's no place for people to develop and play.

Each time I hit the road to gig, it still feels like I'm going to summer camp.

Dean Magraw so liquid, lyrical and effortless it's like listening to a dancer.

When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.

Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.

Progressive, radical, or even revolutionary change has always come from below.

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.

I was born in New Jersey, but it doesn't sound like I'm from a certain region.

Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

When a boy finds someone who takes an interest in him, he responds and follows.

Sometime we'll try and reach for things we know we each want and don't deserve.

People said I was king, but I was never king, and I say I'm the prime minister.

Our perception of yesterday is the foundation for our expectations of tomorrow.

Things turn out better by accident sometimes. But you can't organize accidents.

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.

When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.

I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.

Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood.

Life has become serious for me, although I do like to party every now and then.

Find something that makes you happy and don't let anyone take it away from you.

I'm just as sick as the others, although I prefer to do my sickness in private.

When I go out with Journey, it is a complete cakewalk. I can afford my own bus.

You've got to work hard and have luck. Luck only enters in if you do work hard.

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

We want to be good at our craft, whether it's writing music or playing it live.

You don't realise how long three years is until you go away and write an album.

Being talented was a hard way to make it. But I made it on my talent and songs.

Journey was a jazzy jam band when they first started. They were very out there.

I love my baby like the finest wine, I'll stick with her until the end of time.

My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything.

My dad was a fine pianist and he had a lot of great records and beautiful music.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.

There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people

I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.

The only thing wrong with marriage is that one of the persons involved is a man.

I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.

It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.

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