“Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.”

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.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don’t realize how much I love you.

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

My Father’s Eyes’ is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father’s eyes was when I looked into my son’s eyes.

The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn’t really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.

Music became a healer for me.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they’re far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they’re out of my league.

My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.

The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.

Plant your love and let it grow.

A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.

I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time.

Look, if I’d wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I’d have gone to bed with Martin Luther.

Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man’s mad desire become his god?