I probably owe as much to Jeff Beck as I do to Son House with connections to the blues.

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

It doesn't take much to be good, but it takes a lot to be real good.

If you're really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.

ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie".

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.

All of us evolve everyday! The more we introspect and try to gather ourselves, the more rapid will be the pace of our evolution. The only thing to keep in mind is to be true to yourself.

Freedom is that you harness from being a slave to the one you love.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

If there is no case to take care of, then you will take care to create a case to take care of. Otherwise your system becomes useless.

O hard, when love and duty clash!

It is much easier to organize control over one industry serving many markets than over one market served by the products of several industries.

I see a lot of parents now who are really supporting their kids playing music.

Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.

How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable?

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.