Learn everything you know in all keys.

If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.

Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.

I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note.

Using drugs didn't help me to play, all it did was to hang me up for about fifteen years.

Listen, listen, listen.

Nothing changes if nothing changes

All that is beautiful can only be felt.

If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.

The only failure which lacks dignity is the failure to try.

Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.

I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.

A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is ever quite imaginary.

The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.

Animals are also the ones that are guarding the graves, and they are the ones who communicate between the dead and the alive.

In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers.