If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue.

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.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.

One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.

We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.

What feeds me destroys me.

I'm not doing well. Don't try to talk about this to my sister Liz. She will know it sooner or later.

We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.

Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease.

So much could go wrong on a date. What if he turns out to be a jerk? [You need] A back-up plan, just in case he doesn't work out, you can move on to the back-up plan.