After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the f*** I was going to do with my life.

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

That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite.

The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind

Nowadays music is as disposable as a McDonald's wrapper.

I've never stuck around long enough to know if anyone would miss me. That's rock 'n' roll, though. Here today, gone tomorrow.

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.

I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.

A lot of solos I hear sound so incredible, but they sound like somebody practicing. They sound a bit soulless - fiery, but at the same time, lacking in spirit and soul.

I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.

... by far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player.

What you believe of yourself is what you will become.

What we have in Christ Jesus-Redemption through His blood is the beginning and foundation of everything.

O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

When Callas carried a grudge, she planted it, nursed it, fostered it, watered it and watched it grow to sequoia size.

I remember when the Egyptian ambassador to the United States stood in the Rose Garden and pledged Arab commitment to removing Saddam Hussein from Kuwait.

Nobody criticizes the 'Mighty Ducks' trilogy and gets away with it. Nobody!

When we appreciate how much we have, we feel the urge to pare down, get back to basics, and learn what is essential for our happiness. We long to realize what's really important.

Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.

If he'd done something to harm her, I would annihilate him.

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.