I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.

I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.

One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But it's interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn't do with analog.

Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else

To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.

.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

Measuring progress is often like watching grass grow. While it’s difficult to detect movement on a daily basis, it’s simple to see growth over time.

Nobody has ever measured even poets how much a heart can hold.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery.

Your mine, angel. And I won't let anything change that.

Whether you're trying to excel in athletics or in any other field, always practice. Look, listen, learn - and practice, practice, practice. There is no substitute for work, no shortcut to the top.

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.

Fair use is important to innovators as well as consumers. It's fair use that allowed the VCR to innovate on top of the television.

The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.

Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.

If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.