I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and sleep.

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing.

I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and sleep.

Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.

It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo.

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.