Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point.
I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.
Jeff Beck is my idol. . sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one. . I loved Frank Zappa. . . I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar. . . he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful.
But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.
One of the reasons I took up the guitar was I didn't want to speak to anybody. I really felt uncomfortable speaking to people, so I took the guitar up so I could hide behind it. I'm not comfortable explaining things, because my brain doesn't work that way.
I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.
The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.
One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?
Every time we witness an act that we feel to be unjust and do not act, we become a party to injustice.
Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.
Once you have a plan, you must sell it to the players. It is not enough to put it on the blackboard and say, 'Okay, here it is. ' You have to convince the players that the plan is a good one and show them, in specific ways, why it will work. If you do, you send them out to the practice field with more confidence.