My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar read more

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch -what makes read more

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch -what makes you go beyond the norm.

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write read more

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

The highest qualities of character… must be earned.

The highest qualities of character… must be earned.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting read more

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.