Barney Kessel Quotes

#1. I remember first seeing Barney Kessel, in the 1940s, standing on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, in his cowboy boots, sun glasses and hipster threads, holding his guitar case man, you just knew that cat could wail!'

Anita O'Day

#2. Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.

George Harrison

#3. Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing ... Nobody can play guitar like that

John Lennon

#4. Barney Kessel was 'Mr. Guitar,' the foremost jazz guitarist of his generation. He had an amazing imagination, his solos were incredible, he swung his tail off, he was a heck of an arranger and could out-read anybody ...

Larry Coryell

#5. My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery.

Alvin Lee

#6. 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

Barney Kessel

#7. What is it that makes us who we are and what we are? Is it only our blood, the color of our hair, our skin, and our eyes? Or is it believing in what we believe and living the way we live?

Aleksandra Layland

#8. I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence

Barney Kessel

#9. Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.

Nelson Mandela

#10. I don't know if the secret of life is to find love, but I do think one of the secrets of life is to embody love.

Nicki Minaj

#11. I made my new album 'Colour Me Free!' in a week with my own money.

Joss Stone

#12. He signed his work .. you could always tell when it was Herb Ellis playing

Barney Kessel

#13. We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.

Dick Cheney

#14. 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

Barney Kessel

#15. I asked him "Who said you could fool around with my wife" he said everybody.

Rodney Dangerfield

#16. Maybe that was love. Choking sounds and silence.

Toni Morrison

#17. Love always turns out to be worth everything.

Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

#18. You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is.

Billy Graham

#19. Whatsoever God takes away from His children, He either replaces it with a much greater favor or else gives strength to bear it.

Richard Sibbes

#20. Serve God and live; serve these other gods and died.

Billy Graham

#21. Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world ...

Barney Kessel

#22. I think that the environment is very a complicated question. I am very sympathetic to people who support the environment who live in the United States. I am very sympathetic to people who don't support the environment who live in a very poor country.

Ian Bremmer

#23. 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!

Barney Kessel