Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.

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.

But I miss screamin' and fightin' and kissin' in the rain and it's 2 a.m. and I'm cursin' your name. You're so in love the you act insane, and that's the way I loved you.

For friendship I have nobody else except the volcano.

Figure out what to do, then take a nap.

Of course, I have Gene Roddenberry to thank for the creation of Barclay.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

My son's an idiot. He sprained his ankle playing golf. He fell off the ballwasher.

I find the songs that have the most human components in production are the ones that will stand the test of time.

Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.

The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation to put a better face on evil than it normally wears.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.