The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.

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.

Inside of you, there is the power to change your world. Believe in good and you will find good.

I love working with kids and I want to just be able to do it from my heart and not as a job.

In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.

Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.

What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.

Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.

If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.

Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned.