If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

I was only fond of the music up to a point. Rock and roll wasn't really my love.

These babies ain’t just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.