“What made Red truly great was just his touch, the subtlety of it. He understood you didn’t need to do much to make the instrument sing. Even with a flurry of strings, or those magical converging chords, he really didn’t work at it too hard, the instrument did a lot of the work. He just barely moved, but the sound was magical. The effort was like the effort of a hummingbird to fly.”

Michael Nesmith