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!
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 - Barney Kessel
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
- Barney Kessel
Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world. - Barney Kessel
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 - Barney Kessel
I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence
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,… - Barney Kessel
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,…
he signed his work .. you could always tell when it was Herb Ellis playing - Barney Kessel
he signed his work .. you could always tell when it was Herb Ellis playing
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 - Barney Kessel
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
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