Psy-Fi

"Your guitar is a divining rod, use it to find spirits in the other world and bring them over. A guitar is also a fishing rod, if you're good, you'll land a big one."

"Old delta blues players referred to amplifiers as 'the devil box', and they were right. You have to be an equal opportunity employer in terms of who you're bringing over from the other side. Electricity attracts devils and demons. Other instruments attract other spirits. An acoustic guitar attracts Caspar the ghost, a mandolin attracts Wendy, but an electric guitar attracts Beelzebub."

"If your brain is part of the process, you're missing it. You should play like a drowning man, struggling to reach shore. If you can trap that feeling, then you have something that is fur bearing."

"Don't wipe the sweat off your instrument. You need that stink on there, then you have to get that stink onto your music."

All quotes by the late, great, Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart)