Frank Sinatra

I’m gonna live till I die.

You gotta love livin’, baby, ’cause dyin’ is a pain in the ass.

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.

To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren’t any.

Apparently Jazz is now considered high art and the average person has trouble understanding it.

One minute we’re over here, the next minute we’re doing something completely different. But it’s interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn’t do with analog.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me. The blues didn’t have to explain the mystery of pain that I felt; it was there in the songs and voices of singers like Lonnie Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson, in the cries of their guitars.

I find my inspiration in myself.

Music can’t save the world, but can make one a little calmer.

Music is interior decoration.

Jazz music has always made powerful statements about freedom, creativity and personal identity.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good – he’s rock’s #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us.

I don’t think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life.

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.

To the person who uses music as a medium for the expression of ideas, feelings, images, or what have you; anything which facilitates this expression is properly his instrument.

I did go through a trial-and-error period where I tried out lots of different guitars, but within a couple of years I was right back to the Les Paul. From that point it’s stayed with me ever since. I have other guitars—and I love a lot of them—but I’m most at home on a Les Paul. It’s interesting: most of the time I would even rather make a Les Paul do the things those other guitars do. From the get-go, the Les Paul spoke to me.