I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

It's been up to me to inspire me.

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There's one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

Marion: What is all this? What's going on?Clint: The same thing that's always going on. The end of the world.

There is a very real relationship both quantitatively and qualitatively between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.

I think, in my own state, I can tell you that people do want to hear a serious discussion on serious issues.

No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me ... I want someone to need me.

Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days.

For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.

Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.