Knowing Master Huckaback to be a man of his word, as well as one who would have others so, I was careful to be in good time the next morning . . .

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

When something is not good, it's bad. Period

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

what? shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil?

London, thou art the flower of cities all!

Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

I'm happy, but there's nothing to jump around about.

True leadership means to receive power from God and use it under God's rule to serve people in God's way.

I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you.

And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.

I think my magical dream land would have all of my friends from high school and elementary school. I'm extremely nostalgic so my closest friends are people from my childhood.