The Whole Underlying Theme For

In The Midst Of Creating, A Person Is Raised To Another Level Of Consciousness.

You Have To See Your Unimportance Before You Can See Your Importance And Your Significance To The World.

I Just Sit Down At The Piano And Rattle It Off.

When We First Started Playing We Did A Lot Of Rehearsing. We Used To Write Out Everything. In Fact, That's The Way Everybody Rehearses: We Play The Tunes And Improvise.

I Always Told The People At Cal Arts That If They Wanted Me To Do Jazz Studies, First Of All, There Couldn't Be A Big Band Within 500 Miles And That I Could Do What I Wanted To Do. And They Said I Could.