With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy.

My goal was never to sell many records.

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me

There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right.

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.

I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.