Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.

We loved one another, man. I mean all those stories about the rift ... there was no question of a rift between Charlie Parker and me.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be in that particular spot...You have many things to pick from when you're playing, so you try to train yourself to pick out the best things that you know.

I was blessed that I got married early and had a good wife. That sort of kept me straight. Probably I would have been like Charlie Parker, you know, involved in drugs or alcohol or something like that if I hadn't had this stability.

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.