I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.

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!

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.

Never give up on a good thing, never give up, never give up!

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

The less one remembers about the day before, the more the new day will be unfettered by triviality.