"It is never too late to be what you might have been." George Eliot

"If you want to touch the sky, better learn how to kneel." Bono

"The best psychiatrist in the world — is to have that guitar." Les Paul

"Music has charms to soothe a savage breast," William Congreve

"It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much." Yogi Berra

"I learn something everytime I pick up a guitar. And usually what I learn is that I'm not as good as I thought I was." Keith Richards

"Do not fear mistakes - there are none." Miles Davis

"Life is simple. If you look at it for real, look at it with your good eye: You got to go through it, if you want to get to it." Bobby Womack

"I taught myself how to play the guitar, which was a bad decision... because I didn't know how to play it, so I was a sh***y teacher." Mitch Hedberg

"I wanna live in a town where I never have to drive my car.  I wanna live in a town where Dan Smith will teach me guitar....I wanna live in New York City." Valley Lodge

"If it sounds good to me, you know I just might play it twice." Albert Collins

"The songs are already out there - and I'm an antenna." Keith Richards

"If you make a mistake, repeat it.  Then it's not a mistake anymore...it's a part." Miles Davis

"Bass players call from all over, wanting to know what type of equipment I use, what type of bass, what kind of strings-- things like that. I'll tell them, but that's not what's important; it's the feel. The strings don't make the sound, it's the feel. It's all in here, in the heart."   James Jamerson

"Everybody's got a thing. But some don't know how to handle it." Stevie Wonder

"I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment." Patti Smith

"Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself." Miles Davis

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." Jimi Hendrix

"Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery" Miles Davis

“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.” Madonna

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear” Mark Twain

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." Albert Einstein

"A cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." Oscar Wilde

"I'll play it first and tell you what it is later." Miles Davis

"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase." Martin Luther King

"I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened." Mark Twain

“Country music is three chords and the truth.” Harlan Howard

"Every man knows he is a sissy compared to Johnny Cash." Bono

“My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who i am.” Joan Jett

"Good artists borrow. And great artists steal." Igor Stravinsky

"Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is." Miles Davis

"God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play." Link Ray

"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." Yogi Berra

"Now I know a lot of you came here to hear mistakes. So I want you to know that I rehearsed several in this piece of music." Jerry Reed

"We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong." Bono

"You should play silence like it's your favorite note." Keith Richards

“The important thing is: are they good songs?  Do they sing well?  Is the poetry so good you can’t get it out of your head?  Are the words true, and do they need saying?  Does the music move you?” Pete Seeger

"The only real valuable thing is intuition." Albert Einstein

"You can observe a lot just by watching." Yogi Berra

"Think in terms of what you want, not what you think you can get." Dan Smith

"Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up." Miles Davis