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While Knowledge May Provide Useful Point Of Reference, It Cannot Become A Force To Guide The Future.

But I Have To Be Careful Not To Let The World Dazzle Me So Much That I Forget That I'm A Husband And A Father.

Clare Fischer Was A Major Influence On My Harmonic Concept. He And Bill Evans, And Ravel And Gil Evans, Finally. You Know, That's Where It Really Came From. Almost All Of The Harmony That I Play Can Be Traced To One Of Those Four People And Whoever Their Influences Were.

My Father Was Really Good With Math. It's A Funny Thing, I Don't Remember My Father Or My Mother Being So Mechanical-minded. My Father Always Wanted To Be A Doctor, But He Came From A Really Poor Family In Georgia, And There Was No Way He Was Going To Be A Doctor.

Inspiration Is Constantly In The Air. It's Up To Us To Develop The Sensitivity To Pick Up On It.