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!

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

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

The covers of this book are too far apart.

I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

I'm away 250 days a year. It's a tough situation.

Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to be the foundation.

What is focus and who has the right to say what focus is the legitimate focus?

In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work.

It is our hypocrisy and self-focus that drains us. When we become purpose centered, internally directed other focused and externally open, we discover energy we didn't know we had.

I'm not looking for artistic license with the script. I tend to arrive at a form with the script and feel that that should be for the time being what we aim for.

Whining isn't a scalable solution.

It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.