And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.

Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go home and practice.

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.

More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.

Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play.

Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

Anytime you have an opportunity as an actor to really grow along with your character, I think thats a real gift.

I've lived a phenomenal life, and there's more life in me, but I'm here, I'm not yesterday, but all those yesterday's brought me here. So I'm very comfortable with that.

Audiences want to see them, and in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

I see my writing happening more naturally. Just to relax into it and capture all of the good stuff in a calm and connected fashion.

It's important that we remind the American people of what they already know about Obamacare - that the promises that were made were all broken.

I think the environment is possibly our most worrying thing at the moment, so I think mountaintops are the place to live.

All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.