I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly

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.

The destiny of future generations depends on our action today

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

God continues to work miracles in my life.

As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.

America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.

speed is the curse of the age.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

Mel Gibson's father doesn't think there was a Holocaust? Great. I don't think there's a movie. We're even.

I would not like to be in President Obama's position in making choices on Afghanistan.

Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit.