People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

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.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.

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.

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 don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.