Samuel L Jackson

When you want ’em you can’t get ’em, when you’ve got ’em, you don’t want ’em.

You get that right tickin’ rhythm, man and its ON!

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about, but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.

End phrases where you feel they should end. Don’t look for resolutions you don’t feel because the books call for them.

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.

Oh, my darling, it’s incredible, that someone so unforgettable should think I am unforgettable, too.

I still do what I love, and I don’t really think about it. I try to make a beautiful show, so people go home happy. That’s my biggest aspiration: to make people happy.

Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper… a windshield wiper that’s fairly steady gives you a beat and all you need is an out-of-tune playing ‘Melancholy Baby’ and you’ve got dance music.

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. Get those colors down, and you’ll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?

I don’t care for the music when they’re talking bad about women because I think women are God’s greatest gift to the planet – I just like music.

I’m just trying to create context for me to improve my musicianship.

You can’t copy anybody and end up with anything. If you copy, you’re working without any real feeling.

The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

It was in tune when I bought it.

I think the one thing that I’ve learned is that you cannot predict what’s going to happen. You can’t sit back and try to figure out what people want or leave it up to them to decide. When we all started in this business we would dictate to the audience what was great and they picked up on that based on the fact that we believed that it was great. But that’s all changed. What’s happened in the last ten years or so because is that the technology now means that everyone with a computer can make music and I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not.