Sounds always fascinated me.

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable - this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.

We really were a very musical family. In spite of the fact that we were so poor when I was a youngster that supper was often just a bowl of bread and milk, Father somehow managed to squeeze out enough pennies to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument too.