“Too often, players who are trying to improve their right hand dexterity get hung up by playing too many notes with the left hand.I hear a lot of players running whole scales from the sixth string to the first ,”

You have to be able to tap your foot or else none of what you doing you are not gonna have any control of your symptom.

Forget about every other lesson in the book.

A good way to work on alternate picking is to choose three or four notes, and work on those.

And playing them really sloppy. Keeping it very basic-and using only a few notes-and playing slowly with perfect rhythm is a task in itself.

The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

I would sing anywhere they would invite me. That’s how I made my first pesos. I used to sing at beauty pageants, local events of every sort.

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles…bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first step is to recover from the mass delusion that is positive thinking.

She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service.