Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity

When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80!

Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.

I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence

Charlie Christian showed me a lot, and was a great help, but even then, I realised that if I was going to make it, it was no use copying Charlie

he signed his work .. you could always tell when it was Herb Ellis playing

Know your worth and love yourself in such a way that anyone who is no good for you, wont be able to reach you.

Knowing others is Wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment

Eyes are brave. They speak the truth when the lips lie.

You don’t need to drink to get over your feelings. Deal with your feelings that’s how you get over them,

[Animals] appreciate others' affection, they also have the sort of ability to show their own affection. And then as soon as we're born, child, no religious faith.

New Jersey gives us glue.

He's a freak. Just like me. Just like all those Kane-a-nites out there! And you know what, Freaks are cool!

University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds.

The United States is at a turning point because of a decreasing influence of faith .

Without ducking responsibility, what's wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on solving problems.