The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.

I just have never seen anyone build anything significant in any field without having a deep and detailed sense of what they are building on.

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted

More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.

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

Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play.

I hate the way chorus boxes sound