When 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 McLaughlinI practice all the scales. Everyone should know lots of scales. Actually, I feel there are only scales. What is a chord, if not the notes of a scale hooked together?
John McLaughlinAbsolutely, all guitars are different. You can go into a store and grab five guitars, all the same model, and even though they look identical they're not identical. They play differently, they feel a bit different and they sound slightly different.
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 McLaughlinThere are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
John McLaughlinIn a certain sense, these were lessons I learned by playing with Indian musicians. The rhythmic forms that they use are very complex, and very challenging. In order to play in fifteen, or eleven, or seven or even five, you have to have mastered that time in order to be able to be free with the music.
John McLaughlin