In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.

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.

Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.

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

The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.

When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.

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.