I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.

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.

I didn't set fire to the building.""No, but you did pull it into the river.""That put the fire out!

Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.

I didn't know anything about fashion. I couldn't believe it when I got here. I don't know how I'm sitting here right now speaking English.

There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.

I do my profession, my job, I give me all for my club...the rest doesn't matter to me. I don't care what happens on the outside.

If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.

I read your secrets to escape from my own.

Make a movie that you can be proud of.

There can be no place for self entirely

It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.