You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.

Once you feel that you've learned some skills and you know how to make records, the next thing is, "Do we ever get to make one that people will really like?" Because then we'll have something to do.

In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and was then played loud but with traditional grace and intelligence

I have to think that somewhere on some little island in the Pacific, there's someone's who's great, but I'm probably never going to hear him.

You should try to do something if you think you can see your way clear.