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.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

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.

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'

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

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