As much as I have done collaborations over the years, I am actually kind of a reluctant partner.

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.

Most successful people are always on vacation.

There is more to hear in what is not said.

He was, he admitted, a man who liked to have his cake and eat it too.

Even the wisest and the best of us can be foolish occasionally.

I was the girl of the chain letter, the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes, the one of the telephone bills, the wrinkled photo and the lost connections.

Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control

I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil.

Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.

The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.

I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.