Tip Of The Week - Archive

"It doesn`t have to be 64 notes to a bar. Just one note sometimes seems to tell me a whole lot." - BB KING

"I can play most something of everything I hear, but still, I don`t like to make it a practice. I like to play something from Skip. Why? So it`ll be strange to people, to the rest of musicians." - SKIP JAMES

"I can`t make the guitar say as much as my voice, but I try to get it as close as I can. I`m no hell of a guitar player, not the best guitar walkin` around the streets, but one thing I have tried to do is make the guitar sound like my voice. See, I could never do like Johnny (Winter) does. But the feeling that I put into my guitar- a lot of players can`t put it there." - MUDDY WATERS

"The best thing I've learned to do is this: Whatever I do, I try to do it right. Decently, and in order, regardless to what it is. And I guess that's why I'm so precautious along the line of musical errors. I can get a guitar, and if it's not substantially in tune, I wouldn't hit the stage with it." - SKIP JAMES

"No one plays like me." - MANCE LIPSCOMB

"I`m subject to mistakes. All of us are...Mistakes is the best start in life. You know too much, you understand, then you done made a mistake already.You be too perfect, then the mistakes already been made. But you go try to do a thing and make a mistake to start off with, then that`s the best start in life. It gives somebody a chance to correct you." - REV GARY DAVIS

"My woman can leave me, but my guitar ain`t gonna leave me. Always got that." - JOHN LEE HOOKER

"You can`t be the best. You can just be a good`un." - MUDDY WATERS

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