Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.
Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.
Ritchie Blackmore was a huge early influence on me, but after that I had to find my own way. . . Johann Sebastian Bach was probably the most influential guy ever on me. . . Vivaldi, Beethoven and eventually Paganini. . . all of a sudden I was thinking in all these other areas, instead of blues riffs.
What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.
I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.
The only thing I ever really wanted was a Strat. . I started playing guitar after seeing Jimi Hendrix on TV the day he died. . . then I got Deep Purples' Fireball album which was also a big influence. . I have a collection of more than 200 of them that includes Strats from every year since March 1954 - the first month the Strat was made
I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.
Cowgirl is a spirit, a special brand of courage. The cowgirl faces life head on, lives by her own lights, and makes no excuses. Cowgirls take stands. They speak up. They defend the things they hold dear. A cowgirl might be a rancher, or a barrel racer, or a bull rider, or an actress. But she's just as likely to be a checker at the local Winn Dixie, a full-time mother, a banker, an attorney, or an astronaut.
If you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone.
Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.