 I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it. |
| Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do. |
| Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction. |
| I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt. |
| I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene. |
| Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz. |
| Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from. |
