Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.

To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.

A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.