They said WHAT????

You made it too easy - Keith Richards

Now mine:

"All music is connected...Nothing comes from nothing at all."

Mick Jagger.

My turn:

"I don't know. Ask Eric Clapton, he thinks I can play. A lot of you people want the technical thing, then you think, oh, well, that's like wanting technical films. Most critics of rock & roll guitarists are in the stage of the Fifties where they wanted a technically perfect film finished for them and then they would feel happy. I'm a cinema-verite guitarist-musician. You have to break down your barriers to hear what I'm playing."

John Lennon

Next:

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

John Lenno.

Next:

"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master"

John Lennon

Next:

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Looks like Nils and Greybeard answered mine at the same time. Just for the record, though, Nils' quotation is by Billy Joel. So we're still working on answering Greybeard's puzzler.

Duke Ellington

My turn

"... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he actually arranged the works of Mozart and other classical composers for guitar, something that had never been done before ... Segovias' style is not slick or contrived, but it's still very clean and his timing is impeccable ... it's got a feeling of casual elegance, as if he's sitting around the house in Spain with a jug of wine, just playing from the heart."

Roger McGuinn da Byrds

Another:

I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play

Roger McGuinn da Byrds

Another:

I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play

Ozzy Ozbourne?

Another:

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."

Billy Joel

Next

"They [black and white musicians] jived between each other. All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever."

Billy Joel

Next

"They [black and white musicians] jived between each other. All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever."
Chuck Berry

Easy one

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Buddy Holly

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Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!

Buddy Holly

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"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another."

Frank Zappa

Next:

All my concerts had no sounds in them, they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

Next:

At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.