I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound

Players get to that intermediate level where they can already play pretty good, and that's kind of a dangerous period because they tend to start playing only the things that they can play, rather than the things they can't.

It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom. To me if it's anything, jazz is a verb ? it's more like a process than it is a thing.

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles