1. “You can’t really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybody’s attention in the same place.”
2. “I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.”
3. “When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk outthinking they had a great time even though there as loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.”
4. “It’s true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren’t really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it’s the best.”
5. “I am evidence that you don’t have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.”
6. “The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it’s really about entertainment.”
7. “It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes.”
8. “Musically, I am still hooked and just hypnotized by the sound of the guitar itself. I mean, a guitar sounds good if you drop it on the floor.”
9. “The principle element in a performance is risk, an if you’re losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it’ll wake them up.”
10. “I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.”
