I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.

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.

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

You learn a lot from the people in your life who value you and for the ones that don't you learn forgiveness~

Not only are pasta dishes delicious, but they are also great, easy options for a quick dinner during a busy weekday.

Motivation, basically getting people to be happy at work, everybody - everybody benefits.

It's time for us all to step up. We've been extremely successful, but to be honest it's a reality check for everybody.

The landscapist lives in silence.

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle; there is nothing comparable to the fixed, passive defense that characterizes orthodox war.

Materials are very important to me, and always have been.