I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

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.

I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.

My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.