I Don't Think I Went

If I Do A Piece In My Living Room, If I Practice It - And I Have The Tapes To Prove This - It's Not Going To Be As Good As Doing The Same Piece In Front Of An Audience.

One Of My Earliest Memories... I Knew Three Full Verses Of The Star Spangled Banner When I Was Seven Or Eight Years Old. And One Of The Nuns Discovered This Phenomenon And I Was Actually Sent Around From Classroom To Classroom To Do The Whole Thing.

When You're Working In Front Of An Audience, You Have Incentive To Excel.

I Cut Myself Off From The Mainstream Of Jazz. It Stood Me In Good Stead Later On, As A Musician.

My Uncle And My Grandfather Both Worked In The Brooklyn Navy Yard.