Playing Guitar Is Like Telling The Truth.

Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven, But No One Wants To Die To Get There!

I Was Born On A Plantation, And Things Weren't So Good. We Didn't Have Any Money. I Never Thought Of The Word 'poor' Till I Got To Be A Man, But When You Live In A House That You Can Always Peek Out Of And See What Kind Of Day It Is, You're Not Doing So Well. And Your Restroom Is Not Inside The House.

When You Heard Jimi Hendrix, You Knew It Was Jimi Hendrix. He Introduced Himself With His Instrument. His Attack To A Guitar Man, Was, Oh, Something Else! You Think Of One Of The Great American Ball Players, Or One Of The Great Fighters Of The World, You Know, That's The Way He Would Attack Any Note On His Guitar.

I Think Ive Done The Best I Could Have Done. But I Keep Wanting To Play Better, Go Further. There Are So Many Sounds I Still Want To Make, So Many Things I Havent Yet Done. When I Was Younger I Thought Maybe Id Reached That Peak. But Im 86 Now, And If I Make It Through To Next Month, Ill Be 87. And Now I Know It Can Never Be Perfect, It Can Never Be Exactly What It Should Be, So You Got To Keep Going Further, Getting Better.

The Blues Was Like That Problem Child That You May Have Had In The Family. You Was A Little Bit Ashamed To Let Anybody See Him, But You Loved Him. You Just Didn't Know How Other People Would Take It.