If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him..

To me, all guitar players can play, because I know they're getting to where they're at. It's a very hard instrument to accept, because it takes years….

Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next….

Playing octaves was just a coincidence. And it's still such a challenge, like chord versions, block chords like cats play on piano. There are a lot o….

I got a standard box. I don't never want nothing special. Then if I drop my box, I can borrow somebody else's..

I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over..

You know, John Coltrane has been sort of a god to me. Seems like, in a way, he didn't get the inspiration out of other musicians. He had it. When you….

When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved..

I don't know that many chords. I'd be loaded if I knew that many. But that's not my aim. My aim is to move from one vein to the other without any tro….

It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad….

A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cu….

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going..

I don't know whether it was his (Charlie Christian's) melodic lines, his sound or his approach, but I hadn't heard anything like that before. He soun….

I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat..