I Wanted Something Very Dense, Something That

Paint Pictures With Sound. First, Find Your White-the Deepest, Roundest Sound You Can Play On The Guitar. Then, Find Your Black-which Is The Most Extreme Tonal Difference From White You Can Play. Now, Just Pick The Note Where You've Got White, Pick It Where You've Got Black, And Then Find All Those Colors In Between. Get Those Colors Down, And You'll Be Able To Express Almost Any Emotion On The Guitar.?

My Chops Were Not As Fast... [but] I Just Learned More On What Was In My Mind Than What Was In My Chops. I Learned A Long Time Ago That One Note Can Go A Long Way If It's The Right One, And It Will Probably Whip The Guy With Twenty Notes

To This Day, No One Has Come Up With A Set Of Rules For Originality. There Aren't Any.

..i Wanted To Create Music That Was So Different That My Mother Could Tell Me From Anyone Else

I Think The Most Important Thing About Playing Is To Walk Out With Confidence, Look The People Right In The Eye And Say 'here I Am,' And Go And Do Your Thing. As Soon As They Know You're Confident, They're Confident. As Long As You Adjust To Them You're Not In Trouble. You Should Eyeball Them, Find Out What They Want, And Give It To Them. They Didn't Pay To Come Out And Look At The Tapestries.