Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.

Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!

If you can't afford to take care of your #‎ veterans , then don't go to war.

The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.

I have a really high bar for being angry. Like, it doesn't even happen every year.

I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.'

They say opposites attract, which is possibly why I am very much attracted to Nicholas Parsons.

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!

I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.

Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished.

Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.