If I have a dynamite bass player - I have Darryl Jones - it's so easy to write for him because he's such a funky kid and he's gifted. He's like a little genius.

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.

There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.

If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.

It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.

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

Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?