A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.
I don't believe in 'greatest'. I believe in favorites.
If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.
My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today, gone later today.
Ray and I do not draw salaries, Any profits will be re-invested into marketing the music we believe in.
Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV helps you tap into that connection, and to each other.
You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.
Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical and technical. It's everything.
That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.
I created this picture of this character who would play the guitar effortlessly, who had no limitations, performing beautiful music, and he moved around with great acrobatic skills, just capturing the audience and being a great entertainer.
I was a kid, 12 or something, when the Partridge Family was big on TV. I liked the curly cord running from the bass to the amps, which were real fancy. That cord looked so cool. I said, 'Wow! I gotta play something like that!'
Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.
As a musician, I look for certain things that stimulate me. And what I look for is something that's an evolution on a particular genre that I never heard before.
I was always one of those guys who was a seeker after truth. I want to know what's going on.
When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.
It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.
I can tell you this: I'm an extremely passionate individual. I try to be careful how I display it because you never know how people are going to take it.
If I remain true to what's in my heart, that's all the success I need.
When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time.
I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.
