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I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.
You know a one eyed woman, she do the best she can. She search the world over trying to find her a one eyed man.
Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.
My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.
I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?
I have to have people around who are of a certain strain of humour. I can't deal with people who have no humour.
I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.
It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it
I'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.
If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.
Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I change the tuning.
The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so Im able to do a good job with what is in front of me.
One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
When you walk out in front of an audience of over 70,000 people, you've got to be on your game. They deserve it.
I’ve been trying to find a way for the terror and the beauty to live together in one song. I know it’s possible.
When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue.
I've been shocked for a long time in a lot of circumstances. I get shocked when they say, 'Hey, we're paying ya.'
I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.
Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue.
Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive
My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London.
I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.
The Beatles weren't like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band.
If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.
The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me.
You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.
Soundgarden and Metallica, The Ramones, Everclear... I think they all wanted to see if we still knew how to play.
I've seen bands come out and begin their concerts with these long, slow, boring songs. Are they kidding, or what?
Muddy Waters was, like, the king! He had a lot of adopted sons and daughters. I was just happy to be one of them.
During my early period I had custom-made overdrive stuff because I didn't like what they were making at the time.
While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.
Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.
The guitar part is the pivot of everything we do, so if you change the guitar part you no longer have what it is.
If all you've got is somebody else's stuff that you've lifted, nothing really deep, then it is going to thin out.
I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.
To me, our signature song was 'Rosanna.' That was the ultimate Toto track, where everybody had a chance to shine.
When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.
What I thought at the moment was the worst thing that could happen was absolutely the biggest gift I've received.
It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.
I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.
Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.
We can guarantee you that 15 to 30 seconds of any of our songs are going to be good. The rest, we can't guarantee.
If you want to be the best, Work hardier than the rest. If you don't want to be the best, Just work like the rest.
With any rock documentary or band documentary you always recognize things that you've experienced some version of.
The Rolling Stones... The Rolling Stones have a reflection to my music; I wouldn't deny it. I think that's honest.
All I can do is do what I can do, and do what I know how to do. I do what I love to do, and that's pretty much it.
Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.
Motorboat to heaven, baby's got the key. Tell me, how am I supposed to get in close back here on these water skis?
When I dance, it's incredible. I can't describe it, there's no words. You just tap into your mojo and you just go.