I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

Mutual respect is so important because as soon as it disappears in relations between you and the next person, there's trouble.

I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.

When I grow up I want to be just like Benny Carter!

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.