It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

I have done some things that I'm very proud of. I don't think you can say any more than that, really.

While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.

I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets.

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.

If I could sing, I wouldn't be a guitarist.

I feel that my playing on the first album was probably some of my best.

The States still has the best audiences by far.

My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.

I've always been the first to admit that Jimi was a very big influence on my early stuff.

I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.

Radio is commercial, isn't it. Its a business.

I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.

It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.

I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.

When I was a little kid, I was very impressed with Elvis.

When you start believing youre something special then youre not going to be striving to move forward.

The guitar part is the pivot of everything we do so if you change the guitar part you no longer have what it is.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

I was as big as I have ever been. I had a personal trainer and was working out. I was feeling good. I was muscular. I had never weighed more than 155 pounds.

Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children.

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity.

But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession.