Barney Kessel quotes

Barney Kessel quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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

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“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

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“he signed his work .. you could always tell when it was Herb Ellis playing”
-- Barney Kessel

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“... Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world...”
-- Barney Kessel

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“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

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“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

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