"Kenny Burrell that's the sound I'm looking for." - Jimi Hendrix

"... Elvis Presleys' first album ... had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew everything else out. It changed the whole landscape of music" - Brian Setzer - Stray Cats / Brian Setzer Orchestra

"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself." -Johann Sebastian Bach

"... I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play ..." - Ozzy Osbourne

"Go and Say Goodbye" by the Buffalo Springfield stands as one of the first examples of what would later be branded country rock" - Chris Hillman / Byrds / Manassas / Desert Rose Band

"When you strum a guitar you have everything - rhythm, bass, lead and melody" - David Gilmore / Pink Floyd

"Little Wing is like one of these beautiful girls that come around sometimes ... you play your gig; it's the same thing as the olden days, and these beautiful girls come around.. you do actually fall in love with them because that's the only love you can have. It's not always the physical thing of "Oh, there's one over there ...", it's not one of those scenes. They actually tell you something. They release different things inside themselves ... "Little Wing" was a very sweet girl that came around that gave me her whole life and more if I wanted it ... " - Jimi Hendrix

"Most of us go to our graves with our music still inside of us." -unknown

"... when I saw Jimi Hendrix I knew immediately that this guy was the real thing ... and when he played it was like a rough sketch of what he was going to become ... this guy was our generation, and he wasn't in a suit .. he played a Howlin' Wolf song 'Killing Floor', and then we(The Cream) had to carry on the set. It was pretty hard to follow ... " - Eric Clapton / Yardbirds / Blues Breakers /Cream / Blind Faith / Derek and the Dominoes

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix

"I don't know anything about music, In my line you don't have to." -Elvis Presley (1935-1977)

"Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive" - Les Paul

"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another." -Frank Zappa

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." - Charlie "YardBird" Parker

"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception."(When asked about his theory of relativity) - Albert Einstein

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -Decca Recording Company rejecting the Beatles, 1962

'' It's hard to describe, because on one hand you want your solo to be spontaneous. On the other hand, I feel a good guitar solo should be somewhat of a composition in itself. So, you sort of toggle back and forth between the concept of trying to initiate flow and composing. I think it's a combination of both" - Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter - guitar - Steely Dan / Doobie Brothers