The pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept.

We are not completely autonomous.

Too much of a good thing is just about right

I don't feel that one instrument has more weight than others. Any sound that you can produce adds to your vocabulary of possibilities.

The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That's enlarging. I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.

You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.