Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you..

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.

Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence..

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that..

I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even have to think a….

There has to be a real strong reason to do something with someone for me..

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

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

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.

More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing..

Music is one big thing to me..

Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways..

Sometimes I try to lose my identity, and I can't get rid of it!.

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..

And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head..

The main thing in my life...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..

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history..

If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord..

Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music be….