It's Amazing How Much You Can Learn

If The People In The Audience Are Talking, You're Being Ignored. If The People Are Gazing At You, You've Got Something They Want To Hear.

Don't Let The Same Dog Bite You Twice.

The Gateway To Freedom...was Somewhere Close To New Orleans Where Most Africans Were Sorted Through And Sold. I Had Driven Through New Orleans On Tour And I'd Been Told My Great Grandfather Had Lived Way Back Up In The Woods Among The Evergreens In A Log Cabin. I Revived The Era With A Song About A Coloured Boy Named Johnny B. Goode. My First Thought Was To Make His Life Follow As My Own Had Come Along, But I Thought It Would Seem Biased To White Fans To Say 'coloured Boy' And Changed It To 'country Boy'.

A Contract Is An Ask Game, And If It Asks For An Hour, And I Submit To An Hour, Then It's An Hour. When I Look At A Contract, I Look At The Obligation - Where, When, How Long, The Compensation. If I Agree To It, That's The Way It Is. I Have An Obligation. They Have An Obligation.

The Big Band Era Is My Era. People Say, 'where Did You Get Your Style From?' I Did The Big Band Era On Guitar. That's The Best Way I Could Explain It.