I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.