You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.

I'm not messing around with nobody's woman. If I want a woman I go get her - you know what I mean?

At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.

I did Bronislaw Kaper's tune. He wrote "On Green Dolphin Street." I mean, I did all those ballads, all them ballads from South America. All those tunes - the guitar concerto on Sketches Of Spain. All those are Spanish melodies. Some of them we made up ourselves.

They [police] do me like that all the time! "What you work for?".

You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.

You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.