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Words about music (283): Richard Thompson

photo: Pamela LittkyTo stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.Richard Thompson

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Words about music (284): Steve Cropper

My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere..Steve Cropper

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Words about music (285): Neil Young

With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.Neil Young

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Words about music (286): Scotty Moore

We would just go in and Sam would suggest some songs or Elvis did maybe something he knew. Nothing was pre-determined. We just tried different things and probably found one that everyone felt...

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Words about music (287): Jason Newsted

When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass.Jason Newsted

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Words about music (288): Mitch Mitchell

I don't look around me and think that every thing that has happened in my life has happened because of one person. Obviously Hendrix was a pretty supernatural person. I can't say that things wouldn't...

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Words about music (289): Eric Clapton

From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school...

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Words about music (290): Black Francis

I'm a wimpy little nerdy guy. Well, not little but... So you know I guess I just want to rock like Iggy and all those other people.Black Francis

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Words about music (291): Paul Westerberg

I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things.Paul Westerberg

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Words about music (292): Jimmy Page

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to...

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Words about music (293): John Bonham

photo: Dina RegineThere were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before. John Bonham

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Words about music (294): John Paul Jones

At our very worst, we were better than most people. And at our very best we could just wipe the floor with the lot of them.John Paul Jones

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Words about music (295): Robert Plant

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I...

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Words about music (296): Patti Smith

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It’s freedom.Patti Smith

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Words about music (297): Kim Deal

To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human.Kim Deal

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Words about music (298): Robert Fripp

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.Robert Fripp

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Words about music (299): Jerry Lee Lewis

photo: Silvio TanakaIf I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.Jerry Lee Lewis

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Words about music (300): Daniel Lanois

Obviously you need recording skills and you have to understand the signal path of sounds and so on. But that is stuff you can learn out of books and from this and that. But one thing about being a...

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Words about music (301): Leonard Cohen

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.Leonard Cohen

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Words about music (302): Bo Diddley

I was out to destroy the audience. I wanted to destroy 'em, just make the toughest dude in the crowd pat his foot. I'd find a groove to get 'em by watching feet, and once I got one guy moving, I'd...

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