A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

Lenny Breau is one of the true geniuses of the guitar. I suppose he is a musician's musician. His knowledge of the instrument and the music is so vast, and I think that's what knocks people out about him. But he's such a tasty player too. I think if Chopin had played guitar, he would have sounded like Lenny Breau.

You shape your own destiny.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.