Whatever it took to help Taiwan defend theirself.
Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.
When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80!
Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity
I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence
Charlie Christian showed me a lot, and was a great help, but even then, I realised that if I was going to make it, it was no use copying Charlie
he signed his work. . you could always tell when it was Herb Ellis playing
I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
I'm not oblivious to that connotation of changing careers, so I'm just going in and doing the job. I think that you can't fake doing the job. All I want to do is deliver. That's my focus.
Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.
It's not going to be a straight upward progression, but there's no doubt that consciousness is growing. Prejudices die regularly in the Western world. We don't burn witches anymore.