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.

And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.

If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.

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

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

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.

Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.