I want to be a better and better guitar player. I want to be more articulate, able to utilize space better, to play silence more profoundly.

- John McLaughlin

Live music is better.

- Neil Young

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

- Frank Zappa

I didn’t really think about audience. I was working with my experiences and with my love of musical progression. If you are obsessing something, you may as well take that obsession and put it to a sonic kind of use, to create something.

- Joni Mitchell

You can’t make your music good. You can’t try to be good. You can try to be present and you can try to remain open so what is going to speak to you can speak through you.

- Michael Hedges

We don’t build a record. We’re taking a picture of it. We’re not building an image; we’re capturing an image.

- Neil Young