In jazz improv, there is no such thing as wrong notes, only notes that are better chosen and it's not about the note you play, it's about the note you play next.

I want to figure out how I can make the most important statement with the least amount of information, so I don't run out of ideas by the time I get to my second or third chorus.

It's the opportunity to play something completely different, responding to what happened just before you started to play, and I love that.

Lenny Breau had the ability to reach into your heart.

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.

As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touchThe stone unhewn and coldBecomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

Things are always given to us when we need them... You just have to decide if you're strong enough, brave enough, to seize it and make ityours. (Acheron)

I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

We wondered why when a child laughed, he belonged to Daddy, and when he had a sagging diaper that smelled like a landfill, 'He wants his mother.'

Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.

Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival - but in code.

All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.