Guy Clark Quotes

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

Needless to say, anybody who can stumble through a C-major scale knows that Art Tatum always gave his audiences 10 times their money's worth.

Stevie Winwood played like I'd never heard anybody play before. It just gave me goose bumps.

I was a child prodigy who had a freak voice of something like four octaves.

I was definitely not one of those kids prodigy guitar players.

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently ruined guitar. Because he was the only cat who could do it like that. Everybody else just screwed it up, and thought wailing away (on the guitar) is the answer. But it ain't; you've got to be a Jimi to do that, you've got to be one of the special cats.

Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there.

A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel.

Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.

I have heard Ori Kam on several occasions over the last few years and have always been deeply impressed with his playing. He possesses a rare combination of musical talent, technical facility, intelligence, and charisma, and he is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary young artists I have heard in recent years.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.

But I have seen il Fenomeno do things that nobody else has ever done.

Ray Gomez is one of the greatest guitarists of all times!

I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.'

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince.

A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.

Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger

In my entire life I have never seen a player of such quality and personality at such a young age, particularly wearing the 'heavy' shirt of one of the world's great clubs.

The firefly is an unassuming insect in the daytime. If you didn't know what it was, you'd think it was nothing special. But at night, the firefly glows with its own light source. The darkness brings out its most beautiful gift. That's an extraordinary talent for an ordinary-looking creature, isn't it?

Louie Bellson represents the epitome of musical talent. His ability to cover the whole musical spectrum from an elite percussionist to a very gifted composer and arranger never ceases to amaze me. I consider him one of the musical giants of our age.