My favorite artists are able to take things to the edge or just over the edge. Miles Davis and Duane Allman, for example. It's about not playing too many notes. Those guys had lots of phases to their careers, but they always played with economy and intelligence.

Derek Trucks

It's funny, sometimes life just comes down to bringing a little bit of light to somebody when you can.

Derek Trucks

I remember the first time hearing a recording from Minton's Playhouse; it was Charlie Christian and a young Dizzy Gillespie, and he was just the best musician in the room.

Derek Trucks

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.

Derek Trucks

My grandfather's from Pinson, Alabama, all the Truckses came from there.

Derek Trucks

There's some songs you write like you would write for a four- or five-piece band. But there are times when you start writing and you can immediately hear the full band.

Derek Trucks

But every so often we'll get to this place where everyone in the room is fully focused on what's happening. You see it happens in sports sometimes, when there's a really important moment. It's a great thing when you can get to those places, when you look up you don't see a bunch of phones out.

Derek Trucks

The one thing the Allman Brothers Band does not do is phone it in. They bring it every night and that's something I draw from.

Derek Trucks

I've always been of that mindset - when you're writing tunes with people, there's a traditional way of chopping things up, and then there's the way that feels right. If people contribute, you hit 'em accordingly.

Derek Trucks

You can remember almost every Elmore James solo by heart because he was playing songs. Nothing's wasted. Nothing's throwaway.

Derek Trucks

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

Derek Trucks

B.B. King wanted people to carry the torch. He wanted people to keep that music alive, and he would talk about it.

Derek Trucks

My favorite artists are able to take things to the edge or just over the edge. Miles Davis and Duane Allman, for example. It's about not playing too many notes. Those guys had lots of phases to their careers, but they always played with economy and intelligence.

Derek Trucks

You hear a great Art Blakey drum solo or Elvin Jones, and you can tell when they're taking a breath. You can tell when they're loading up for something big. There's just this humanity in it, and I think that's important as well.

Derek Trucks

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

Derek Trucks

My earliest memories are of traveling from Jacksonville, Florida, to visit my uncle and his family in Tallahassee.

Derek Trucks

We got our old Neve recording console, it was owned by The Kinks for a long time.

Derek Trucks

The Allman Brothers Band has a long, storied history and I wouldn't count them out. It's just not in the cards for me.

Derek Trucks

When you're dealing with the age of Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram, then everything becomes very selfish and cynical.

Derek Trucks

When you're improvising, you connect with people in a way you don't in normal life, strangely.

Derek Trucks

A lot people hit the road trying to make some cash. We are out here trying to do something that we really believe in. That's what all of our musical heroes always did.

Derek Trucks