The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.

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.

She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.

Life is a game. Either you win or lose. Never allow the fear of losing prevent you from entering the game.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world changes depending on its arrangement into one narrative or another.

My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding, the chin in doubt, and the chin at bay.

A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.

I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.

The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week?