When A Child Is Gifted, People Try

I Feel More Alive Now Than I Ever Have In My Life. I Have A Chance To Live, As I've Dreamed.

Jazz Is Not Just Music, It's A Way Of Life, It's A Way Of Being, A Way Of Thinking. . . . The New Inventive Phrases We Make Up To Describe Things - All That To Me Is Jazz Just As Much As The Music We Play.

I Believe The Time Will Come When The Whole Definition Of Pop Music Will Change. It Will Get To The Point Where A Song Will Not Be A Good Song Until It Has A High Level Of Creativity In Writing And Performance. In Other Words, In Order To Be Popular, Songs Will Have To Meet These High Standards.

Music Is An Art And Art Has Its Own Rules. And One Of Them Is That You Must Pay More Attention To It Than Anything Else In The World, If You Are Going To Be True To Yourself. And If You Don't Do It - And You Are An Artist - It Punishes You.

We Have Ordered Things So Long In A Certain Way, We Are Numb. Nobody Dares Question It. This Is What Is Wrong, Symbolically, With America.