26 Quotes by Jorma Kaukonen

I have been teaching guitar all of my playing life. I really needed to do this. Where the ranch is now there were only prickly bushes and poison ivy. It has exceeded our wildest expectations for me and my blues-picking buddies.

Our fans have been with us a long time; they just don't stay up as late.

I was basically a blues-folky kind of guy, Jack came from various R&B things in D.C., everybody was coming from a different place. And Grace didn't sound like anybody else.

Even though I don't have a major label, everyone is doing it by themselves.

That's where the rubber meets the road. You get sharper when you have to play for someone else, not just for yourself.

But I'm a rock 'n' roller. I will always sound like me.

If I could bottle that and teach it, it would be great, ... We're always springing something new on each other. We also always leave space for each other.

...I liken feedback to the effect of when you go surfing; you can get pummeled by a wave, but if you balance the forces right, you can have a dandy ride ... that's pretty much what feedback is...

I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that I did. Well, it wasn't work; it was fun actually.