Sometimes I Think I Was

Working With Monk Brought Me Close To A Musical Architect Of The Highest Order. I Felt I Learned From Him In Every Way--through The Senses, Theoretically, Technically. I Would Talk To Monk About Musical Problems, And He Would Sit At The Piano And Show Me The Answers Just By Playing Them. I Could Watch Him Play And Find Out The Things I Wanted To Know. Also, I Could See A Lot Of Things That I Didn't Know About At All.

I Would Like To Bring To People Something Like Happiness. I Would Like To Discover A Method So That If I Want It To Rain, It Will Start Right Away To Rain. If One Of My Friends Is Ill, I'd Like To Play A Certain Song And He Will Be Cured; When He'd Be Broke, I'd Bring Out A Different Song And Immediately He'd Receive All The Money He Needed.

Don't Ever Get So Big Or Important That You Can Not Hear And Listen To Every Other Person.

Starting In The Middle Of A Musical Sentence And Moving In Both Directions At Once.

The Main Thing A Musician Would Like To Do Is To Give A Picture To The Listener Of The Many Wonderful Things He Knows Of And Senses In The Universe.