Every Time You Pick Up Your Guitar

Every Time You Pick Up Your Guitar To Play, Play As If It's The Last Time.

It's Very Difficult To Explain The Effect The First Blues Record I Heard Had On Me, Except To Say That I Recognized It Immediately. It Was As If I Were Being Reintroduced To Something That I Already Knew, Maybe From Another, Earlier Life. For Me There Is Something Primitively Soothing About This Music, And It Went Straight To My Nervous System, Making Me Feel Ten Feet Tall.

But The Guitar, When You Think About It, Is The Most Versatile, Really. I Mean You Can Pick It Up And Take It With You Wherever You Go.

Give Me A Guitar And I'll Play; Give Me A Stage And I'll Perform; Give Me An Auditorium And I'll Fill It.

In My Lowest Moments, The Only Reason I Didn't Commit Suicide Was That I Knew I Wouldn't Be Able To Drink Any More If I Was Dead.