I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

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.

If you will let it, this Blue Willow platter can represent my promise to fill your life with my trust and love and a houseful of children. - Peter Andersen

She wanted to kiss him.No.It was one thing to return his kiss

I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me.

Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.

If your fund doesn't last for the long term, how can you invest for the long term?

Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school.

You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.

Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

Shopping online is fantastic for comparison shopping, because never before have you had the ability to see all the prices offered from everybody at one time.

Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.