The Byrds Quotes
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The challenge will be to bring more uranium production online to assure market balance.
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How many years will you crawl through this castle, so satisfied and still wanting more?
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Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.
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He blew his mind out in a caaaar.
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Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.
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Scotty Moore plays one of the first really amazing riffs in rock history on Heartbreak Hotel with Elvis Presley ... it was dangerous, it scared everybodys parents, which was part of the attraction then - as it still is now... it totally blindsided me and made me want to get a guitar and do that.
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I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player.
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I use a lot of tunings because I listen to a lot of jazz.
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... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he actually arranged the works of Mozart and other classical composers for guitar, something that had never been done before ... Segovias' style is not slick or contrived, but it's still very clean and his timing is impeccable ... it's got a feeling of casual elegance, as if he's sitting around the house in Spain with a jug of wine, just playing from the heart.
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I don't really collect guitars.
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Im not attracted to expensive things.
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The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.
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If there's anyone in space, what they'll learn about the human race will be listening to us talking on the car phone.
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The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.
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Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.
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Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues.
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We don't wear sequins because we think we're great. We wear them because we think sequins are great.
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The first time I lose I drink whiskey, second time I lose I drink gin. Third time I lose I drink anything 'cause I think I'm gonna win.
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Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who they belong to, some can't get a single thing to work inside.
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I just passed my identification crisis and came back to country music.
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I think pure country music includes rock and roll .. I've never been able to get into the further label of country-rock .. how can you define something like that ? - I just say this: It's music. Either it's good or it's bad; either you like it or you don't.
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At Harvard, you don't major. You concentrate.