I never read comics growing up. I didn't have money and I don't like to touch paper.
John McLaughlinInterplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.
John McLaughlinI just want to keep exploring music and hopefully the orders will keep coming in and I'll be able to keep growing the interior and exterior sides of my life.
John McLaughlinWhen you open box after box of old comics and they're ALL "Archie," you have suffered a trauma from which it is difficult to ever recover.
John McLaughlinThe moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.
John McLaughlinIf I can get out of the way, if I can be pure enough, if I can be selfless enough, and if I can be generous and loving and caring enough to abandon what I have in my own preconceived silly notions of what I think I am - and become truly who in fact I am, which is really just another child of God - then the music can really use me. And therein lies my fulfillment. That's when the music starts to happen.
John McLaughlin