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

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.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.

The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.