Always listen for what you can leave out.

Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.

It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?

Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

Lionel [Richie] said, "Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums."

Somebody, my daughter or my wife, gave me a music box for Christmas. It plays "My Funny Valentine" on celeste, you know? So I had Bobby [Irving] just play "Jean Pierre" with the changes on celeste.

It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.