The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players.... male and female.

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. ...both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.

I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar taste and aspirations and like music as much as you do.

I've never stopped learning.

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played

The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique

I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

The future shouldn't be female or male---but one of women and men working together. That's the real definition of equality.

Imagine how extraordinary the world would be if everyone believed the only man capable of evil…was himself.

The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life.

A plain is what a mountain aims to be: the closest you can come to being in outer space while yet having your feet on this planet.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own setting.

We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.

Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.

You don't help a depressed economy by giving control of its resources to politicians.

One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.