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.

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say.

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.

Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence.

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.

Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.