Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.

Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.

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.

Sometimes you have to forget your principles and do what’s right.

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.