Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze, but as they sway they connect at the roots.
Some of the best advice I was given was that me doing a bad version of me is better than me doing a good version of someone else.
Nowadays blues in particular has a wide, wide, wide, wide net of everything that's called blues. I think if somebody's coming to it in the last ten years or whatever, or even fifteen years, what their experience is what is called blues is different from mine. I have to expand my range of what's been called the blues. I think somebody who's new to it would have to go back and to see what is called blues now, where it came from. If that makes sense.
Just immerse yourself in the culture of the music - it will open some doors for you.
Nowadays it's hard to get somebody to invest the time - everybody wants to be famous rather than be a good musician.
When you are sitting in a room and somebody does something or says something and a thought comes, an idea or a melody - you have to just grab it while it's there because it will go away.
I'm just a restless soul musically.
Be mindful even if your mind is full
It's a great day for America, everybody! It's Monday, woo.
Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.
All musicians practice ear training constantly, whether or not they are cognizant of it. If, when listening to a piece of music, a musician is envisioning how to play it or is trying to play along, that musician is using his or her 'ear' - the understanding and recognition of musical elements - for guidance.