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.

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.

I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.

With "We Are The World," I can't even eat when I watch that on television. If I'm eatin' some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.

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

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

You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.