Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.

How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.

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

There are a lot of great players... a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.

Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.

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