When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.

I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.