Audience: '' 'Call Me Crazy' ''
John; ''If you'll call me darlin' ''....etc.

I never really expected any of the music business to happen, but I'm glad it did. It was a very cool thing to happen. It was a hobby for me. I used to do it to meet girls. If you had long hair and could play a guitar then you got girls. That's how I started. Then I fell in love with the music and got carried away.
- John Martyn

You can't live in the past, musically if you do, you are dead.
- John Martyn

I'm still excited by music, I wish it would go away. Working with Levon Helm and The Band was very soulful; I liked that. And I loved Andy Shepard's solo on My Creator (from On The Cobbles). I loved Paul Weller as well. That was fun.
- John Martyn

I used to come out in sweats and rashes and get terrified. It wears off after a while. But you're a fool if you don't get nervous. All I know is they'll have to take me off with a harness before I stop playing.
- John Martyn

I've fucking dropped my stick.
- John Martyn

We were doing a studio gig at the BBC. An apprentice engineer calls down on the Tannoy, 'Mr Thompson, we are getting a strange buzzing noise on the bass.' Danny puts down the bass, marches up into the control booth and says 'That son is tone and its taken me twenty years to get it.
- John Martyn annecdote concerning Danny Thompson

A lovely man but he would'nt buy you a drink if your teeth were on fire.
- John Martyn discussing his keyboard player 2000

'Hows your leg John?' Comes a shout from the audience. 'It's fine, thanks for asking...which one do you mean?'
- John Martyn's end of tour show at Liverpool's Royal court theatre, the first tour since Johns right leg was amputated below the knee in 2003

I�'ve had a very lucky life. People used to feel sorry for me because I came from a broken home, as it was called in those days. It was great. I didn�'t have any brothers and sisters to wreck my train set or annoy me. I was very happy and I was brought up by my granny and grannies are awfully good at bringing up wee boys.
- John Maryn

I don�'t need embellishment. I�'ve been nailed under the carpet. Literally true. I've been nailed under a carpet.
- John Martyn

When I was really ill I got quarter of a million hits on the website. All wishing me well, saying we love you and get well soon, etcetera. It�'s comforting to know that. In fact, last week I had a fellow who had made a pilgrimage from Carolina to come and see me. I gave him a cup of tea and he went off very happily. It was very odd.
- John Martyn

They came to me to record an album and I thought, �'Why not?'� Since then I�'ve carried on because I�'ve had no desire to stop.
- John Martyn