Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white—the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black—which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you’ve got white, pick it where you’ve got black, and then find all those colors in between. […]

I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.  

  And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.  

If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.