The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

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.

Life is a teacher. We are the student.

Firing of Energy does it faster than pumping, but the latter is under better control, and much more resource efficient

Kid - the next time I say, 'Let's go someplace like Bolivia,' let's go someplace like Bolivia.

We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.

I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.

I don't mind suffering as long as it's really about something. I don't mind great luck, if it's about something. If it's the hollow stuff, then there's no gift, one way or the other.

Well, you know, my wife and I have eight children. We have now 19 grandchildren.

I'm working on a project called Lemons, produced by Killer Films. The director has a great perspective on character development.

Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.