Listening is the key to everything good in music.

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.

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.

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.

Distance may be the segregator but our thoughts and dreams are what keep us together.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Cats have been all over the Internet for many years. This makes total sense, as they seem to spend half their lives trying to stand and sit on the keyboards of our laptops.

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

I believe I was extremely greedy.

I had to prove myself to a lot of different people.

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

It's going to be very interesting to see somebody playing me.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.