Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.

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.

As believers, our reaction to crisis reveals our heart toward God.

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

A dream project is anything I do when I'm awake.

The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?

'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.'

The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's Church. She does not call the native to God's ways but to the ways of the white man, of the master, of the oppressor.

Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.

The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.

I know this is our honeymoon. But just sometimes, I wish Luke was a girl.

It doesn't matter what we say , so long as we all say the same thing.