“ True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse Pat Martino Guitarist
“ The guitar is of no great importance to me. The people it brings to me are what matter. They are what I'm extremely grateful for, because they are alive. The guitar is just an apparatus. Pat Martino Guitarist
“ The music has generated all the techniques I use. When I sit down to learn to play something . . . it is not because I want to master a technique. It is because I want to hear what an idea sounds like. Pat Martino Guitarist
“ God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons. Jeremy Taylor Author
“ Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist
“ In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of. Robert Schumann Composer
“ I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz. Jimmy Page Musician