Simplicity is the key.

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.

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.

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

Foolishness pours out of an open mouth....but wisdom sneaks in through the ears....

The dead are practical.

I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, with me.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.

The cheating was sweet, but my heart is beat. Don't tear it apart, please by-pass this heart.

I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, "and how can I get back?

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.