It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well. And by that time I was too rich to care.

When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

It takes a lot of devotion and work, or maybe I should say play, because if you love it, that's what it amounts to I haven't found any shortcuts, and I've been looking for a long time.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

You shape your own destiny.

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

Elvis changed the country music scene quite a bit; he almost put country music out of business.

If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong t

How grand is victory but how dear!

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience.

As the monkey climbs the tree, more people can see his bottom.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state.

I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.

Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.

Never blame others for tracking in mud, until you have checked your own feet.