To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

- John Abercrombie

Schlepping all of the equipment is the part I hate more than anything.

- John Abercrombie

As Eric Dolphy said 'Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone'. And that's true. But when you record it, it comes back to haunt you someti…

- John Abercrombie

Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play.…

- John Abercrombie

The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and estimable in the human char…

- John Abercrombie

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

- John Abercrombie