It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.

It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?

The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play

With "We Are The World," I can't even eat when I watch that on television. If I'm eatin' some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.

Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.

John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive