If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.

You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

Bad music can make you weak.

Most folks, when they see movies or hear records, need something that they find pulls them in, draws them in, and appeals to them beyond just the notes. For a record to be memorable and great, it has to have something of this quality. Exactly what that is, I don't know, but I think it has something to do with an atmosphere, an environment that is appealing and attractive. And the people that inhabit this environment have... almost a message for the rest of the world.

If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.

Needless to say, you've got to have someone who can speak for you.

I have to think that somewhere on some little island in the Pacific, there's someone's who's great, but I'm probably never going to hear him.