Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.
You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.
Critisism is just reflection of the person that speaking
Jeff Beck is compelled by his inner artistic drive to keep evolving the instrument. He'll use the whammy bar with the volume knob and the tone control all at the same time - creating harmonics that no human being should be able to hit.
Make an exercise out of everything you canโt do.
... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't even begin to imagine where he came from