Music is one big thing to me.

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.

Then Walter died as he lived, he told his mate. A hero, a soldier, and a survivor who chose to protect what was precious to him. I don't think, if you could ask him, that he would have any regrets.

The only thing mothers have in common with each other is the fact that they slept with a man while they were ovulating without the appropriate protection

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

There's no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country.

The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

If you want to preach a revolutionary message, wear a suit.

I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.

Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.