1944 – 2023
“I don’t care about the rules. In fact, if I don’t break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I’m not doing my job properly.”
“Some are skeptical. My mom thought the guitar was going to fizzle out in two weeks, that it was just a fad-and that was in 1958.”
“I was interested in the electric guitar even before I knew the difference between electric and acoustic. The electric guitar seemed to be a totally fascinating plank of wood with knobs and switches on it. I just had to have one.”
“I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.”
“I don’t understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off.”
“I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That’s the point now isn’t it?”
“I was going to write an autobiography once. I started writing it, and then I thought, ‘No, let them dig around when I’m dead.”
