Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.
Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.
Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
Plant your love and let it grow.
It's been up to me to inspire me.
Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
Whatever your standing in life, the most important thing is behaving in ways that help other people. It's the same with music. I am a servant of the music ... and if I get caught up in ego, I'll lose everything .. it'll burn and that's a guarantee.
You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.
For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.
In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink any more if I was dead.
All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.
Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.
I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.
The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.
Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.
Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?
I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized, and when it is, that becomes immediately obvious.
I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.
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