In Other Words, An Instrument

I Did Bronislaw Kaper's Tune. He Wrote "on Green Dolphin Street." I Mean, I Did All Those Ballads, All Them Ballads From South America. All Those Tunes - The Guitar Concerto On Sketches Of Spain. All Those Are Spanish Melodies. Some Of Them We Made Up Ourselves.

Bebop Didn't Have The Humanity Of Duke Ellington. It Didn't Even Have That Recognizable Thing. Bird And Diz Were Great, Fantastic, Challenging — But They Weren't Sweet.

Sometimes [playing Free] Doesn't Happen, Because Maybe A Guy's Wife'll Come In, You Know, And His Ego Will Catch Him. If Everybody's Completely Just Straight-without Any Old Ladies Over Here, A Fourth Of Whisky Over There; If It's Balanced Right, It'll Come Off. It Has To Be. But When You Get Egos Involved With Playing Free, You Can't Do It.

Jazz Musicians Are So Comfortable. The Reason They Can't Do What We Do Is Because They're So Comfortable Doin' What They Do.

It Took Me Twenty Years Study And Practice To Work Up To What I Wanted To Play In This Performance. How Can She Expect To Listen Five Minutes And Understand It?