I Just Sit Down At The Piano

It Used To Be That Creative Music Was Most Of The Music That You Heard Back In The '30s And '40s, And Now It's Like 3 Percent. So, Its Kind Of A Struggle Getttin' It Out There.

As Long As There Are Musicians Who Have A Passion For Spontaneity, For Creating Something Thats Never Been Before, The Art Form Of Jazz Will Flourish.

I Learned At A Very Young Age That Music Teaches You About Life. When You're In The Midst Of Improvisation, There Is No Yesterday And No Tomorrow — There Is Just The Moment That You Are In. In That Beautiful Moment, You Experience Your True Insignificance To The Rest Of The Universe. It Is Then, And Only Then, That You Can Experience Your True Significance.

Before Music There Was Silence And The Duet Format Allows You To Build From The Silence In A Very Special Way.

I Always Told The People At Cal Arts That If They Wanted Me To Do Jazz Studies, First Of All, There Couldn't Be A Big Band Within 500 Miles And That I Could Do What I Wanted To Do. And They Said I Could.