"Gear is important, but its purpose is to fine-tune your sound, not to make your sound. That comes from the hands." - Allan Holdsworth
"I like to see the thing burn when you hit a chord - that blue glow." - Jimmy Page
"The music has gotten thick, guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them... I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them." -Miles Davis, 1958
"That [the 2nd part of Can't You Hear Me Knocking] just happened by accident; that was never planned. Towards the end of the song I just felt like carrying on playing. Everybody was putting their instruments down, but the tape was still rolling and it sounded good, so everybody quickly picked up their instruments again and carried on playing. It just happened, and it was a one-take thing" (Mick Taylor, 1980).