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The curtains were made for moving Cause you know sometimes you're not always there
I practiced two or three hours, sometimes none, sometimes six. It was very varied.
Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.
The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.
All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.
In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand.
Don't play too loud! Bleed-through on stage can be brutal to front-of-house sound.
Giving a record company an album is like giving a gangster your baby or something.
Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.
If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.
Anyone who's followed our band through the years has heard about the teenage angst.
Abu Ghraib, as bad as it was, can't be compared to what Saddam was doing to people.
Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.
And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.
Music was my whole life, not a career. It definitely was never easy... Still isn't.
I've always been a fan of music where you can hear new things each time you listen.
All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.
When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.
If someone likes you, they'll buy what you're selling, whether or not they need it.
There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had heroin in me
Well, I don't need protection One life begins, another dies Bad timing I won't last
Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.
I believe everybody is spiritual and no one is any more spiritual than anyone else.
I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.
We hate to be cheering for high gas prices. The reality is that's what's happening.
There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them
I cannot spend my entire life going around the country playing 'You Enjoy Myself '.
Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?
I'm not ashamed to say that I really loved some of the hair metal bands of the '80s.
It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.
Despite what your girlfriend may have told you, size is important, bigger is better.
It's too easy to do a patriotic-themed show to crawl into people's hearts and minds.
I'm doing the best I can with what I got and that's all anybody in my band is doing.
I think people have to be more aware of what the repercussions are of their actions.
I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.
I never read comics growing up. I didn't have money and I don't like to touch paper.
I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.
We're always in that head space about the audience and less about us at that moment.
You have this resonant box that sounds cool when you smack it, so why not go for it?
If everyone would look for that uniqueness then we would have a very colorful world.
When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'
I didn't sit down and work out other people's material; I've never believed in that.
I was a good father. I was a nice guy, pretty good guitar player, and funny as hell.
When the 'Thriller' album came up, we all knew that was going to be the cool record.
I think that Zappa intentionally made his music weird, but did it with intelligence.
A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.
Nine times out of ten we find reasons for everything going on that aren't paranormal.
A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.