The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.

Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing thats lasting.

Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.

The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.

People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as you commercialize your sound like Wes Montgomery did, the jazz fans and the critics are down on you!

The melody is the most important thing that must stay in the minds of the people who listen to you. No matter how many notes you play, you can't let them forget what the song is.

I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.