Homer Simpson

I never apologize. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way I am.

All I play is truth and emotion.

It became a kind of a game, to remember the things that had happened five minutes ago. I would start making notes about the things I was doing, on an instrument that was foreign to me, the guitar, so it was just a fun way of doing cognitive therapy. I was none the wiser to it until I began to improve and my ability to speak began to come back.

A great teacher stimulates his student’s creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.

I say this because it’s a good message to give to young talents who feel as I used to. You hear musicians playing with great fluidity and complete conception early on, and you don’t have that ability. I didn’t. I had to know what I was doing. And ultimately it turned out that these people weren’t able to carry their thing very far. I found myself being more attracted to artists who have developed through the years and become better and deeper musicians.I believe in things that are developed through hard work.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Hipness is not a state of mind, it’s a fact of life.

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

There’s such a cynicism about the phrase ‘I laughed all the way to the bank.’ It’s as though money is what you’re doing, rather than playing music. If you’re playing a money game, why not get into banking?

If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!

New artists can own their content and completely build their base and their following without having to sell or be owned by anybody and it creates such a diversity.

Pop doesn’t really look back. It can’t. What makes pop work is simplicity.

They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I’ve heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn’t swinging.

I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.

I’m believe that all people are in possession of what might be called a ‘universal musical mind.’

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I’d never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.