As he stepped forward with the guitar, the standing ovation just drove him back, ... As he stepped forward a second time, the standing ovation him drove him back again. As both Carlos Santana and Steve Miller both observed, he had tears in his eyes. B.B. himself said he was overcome. He didn't know what he had done to deserve this, and the fact remains that the white hippies from that period were running ahead of the curve. They knew what was hip.

He said 'What have I done to deserve this?' ... Sometimes people tell you should get something, you could get something, you might get something, you deserve something. But somebody's got their hand on you, pushing you back. Finally, he had gotten some thing , something that B.B. had earned. But I don't think he himself knows why. In other words, why me, why not Jimmy Reed, or Louis Jordan? I think he leaves that up to the people who write about him.

Although I knew that he had motivation and concentration and an amazing work ethic, ... all of those things just paled by comparison when I actually found out how intense these qualities are in him. He has an amazing quest for self-improvement, which continues on.

I actually first picked up an ukulele before I picked up a guitar.

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

For 20 years I've been screaming at these guitar companies, saying, 'It's abnormal to put your arm around an acoustic guitar that is about 6 to 8 inches deep.' Your arm reaches over, and you start to strum, and then all of a sudden you get a charley horse in your back. The older you get, the greater the charley horse.