I Wanted To Connect My Guitar To

I've Said That Playing The Blues Is Like Having To Be Black Twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan Missed On Both Counts, But I Never Noticed.

The Crowds Treat Me Like My Last Name. When I Go Onstage People Usually Stand Up, I Never Ask Them To, But They Do. They Stand Up And They Don't Know How Much I Appreciate It.

I Always Liked The Steel Guitar. I Also Love The Guys That Play The Bottleneck. But I Could Never Do It; I Never Made It Do What I Want. So Every Time I Would Pick Up The Guitar, I'd Shake My Hand And Trill It A Bit. For Some Strange Reason My Ears Would Say To Me That Sounds Similar To What Those Guys Were Doing. I Can't Pick Up The Guitar Now Without Doing It. So That's How I Got Into Making My Sound. It Was Nothing Pretty. Just Trying To Please Myself. I Heard That Sound.

I Call Myself A Blues Singer, But You Ain't Never Heard Me Call Myself A Blues Guitar Man.

When You Heard Jimi Hendrix, You Knew It Was Jimi Hendrix. He Introduced Himself With His Instrument. His Attack To A Guitar Man, Was, Oh, Something Else! You Think Of One Of The Great American Ball Players, Or One Of The Great Fighters Of The World, You Know, That's The Way He Would Attack Any Note On His Guitar.