60 Quotes by Derek Trucks

One of those Rolling Stone Greatest Guitar Player lists came out and there was no Albert King. That's impossible! There are 10 people on there who wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Albert.

I think the first time I was at Red Rocks was my first gig as a member of the Allman Brothers Band, June of 1999.

People have a tendency - you let your ego get in the way of the big moments.

When things come up, you deal with them. However uncomfortable that is, let's have this discussion right now.

When you think about your heroes, it absolutely shapes how you play and who you are.

You hear it in the great musicians, whether it's a drummer or a horn player or a guitar player - you hear them take those breaths. You can feel that there's something they're trying to tell you.

Well I've been playing an SG forever, and I've got some other vintage Gibsons I like to use in the studio.

I got a picture of me taken next to George Jones. I rarely ask for that, but he's someone I couldn't pass up.

I used a '57 Les Paul on one track, 'These Walls', which features Alam Khan on sarod. I tuned it way down because the sarode is naturally in C but I tuned the guitar down to D and he came up to D. It was all a pretty simple setup.