Kenny Burrell Quotes

#1. I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton ... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

B.B. King

#2. I started in high school with a teacher there. I also took lessons at the Conservatory of Music in Detroit. Detroit was very motivating. There were a lot of local people who inspired me like Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers, Roy Brooks, Donald Byrd, etc.

Yusef Lateef

#3. Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

Dizzy Gillespie

#4. Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite.

B.B. King

#5. I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.

Robert Quine

#6. Kenny Burrell that's the sound I'm looking for.

Jimi Hendrix

#7. Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

Stevie Wonder

#8. There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell

George Benson

#9. I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship],

Kristin Hannah

#10. Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?"
Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again.
It is Felicity who answers, eyes steely. "They are weak to temptation. And we are their temptresses.

Libba Bray

#11. I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here.

Robert Breault

#12. With my crazy schedule, that often means cutting into my sleep. But yoga gives me the energy and focus I need to get through my day. I'm not saying I don't need a cup of coffee in the afternoon sometimes, but it's the yoga that definitely keeps me centered.

Giada De Laurentiis

#13. Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.

Christine Baranski

#14. So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying; Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.

Robert Herrick

#15. Here's the thing about broken hearts. You can always survive them. Always. No matter how deep the hurt, the capacity to heal and move on is even stronger.

Susan Wiggs

#16. My audience has developed so that they come to listen and are quiet, Thus I can work in a limited volume range and explore all the subtleties that can happen, which is my favorite part of the music.

Kenny Burrell

#17. Freddie Bryant is a brilliant young guitarist and composer.

Kenny Burrell

#18. My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music.

Kenny Burrell

#19. When Henry Ford founded the company bearing his name in 1903, he saw the car as a means of providing freedom of mobility to people around the world.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#20. I strive for honesty in playing what I feel.

Kenny Burrell

#21. He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting.

Shirley Jackson

#22. [My] style evolved, not changed, but I think evolved as I grew and matured. I don't think there was any kind of change I did in a deliberate way - I think I just evolved.

Kenny Burrell