My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

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.

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.

If you can’t see a solution it does not mean it doesn’t exist, you are just blind to it

If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence.

Bad mind, bad heart. (Mals Mens, Malus Animus

By giving up 'the need' and 'the want', things begin to happen for you

We feel the love of strangers every day in the things they do that affect us without our knowledge.

I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.

Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.

Better ten days of love than years of regretting.

Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.