It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.
I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.
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.
The idea of life is to give and receive.
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.