If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.

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.

You might be educated, but if you are not kind you are not wise.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

I don't see myself becoming a superhero.

All creations demand greenery of spirt. 

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.

A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

We have strict orders: If we talk about it we get fined $50,000.

Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.

I think, as a writer, I'm in my own head.