You Have To See Your Unimportance Before

I Always Felt That I Was Born In The Wrong Era. I Wanted To Be Friends With John Garfield, For Instance. He Was One Of The Only Actors That Refused To Testify In Front Of The House Un-american Activities Committee Back When The Hollywood Ten Blacklist Was Happening In The Mccarthy Period. I Wish I Could've Been Friends With Charlie Parker And Played With Him. That's My Period. I Feel Real Close To The '40s - And Actually I Was Born In '37, So I Was A Kid Singing On The Radio In The '40s. But I Always Dreamed Of Going To Big Cities.

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.

Creative Arts Raise A Person To Another Level Of Consciousness As If You Could Imagine Life Before Words.

I Just See Myself As A Human Being That's Concerned About Life.

In The Midst Of Creating, A Person Is Raised To Another Level Of Consciousness That Doesn't Have That Much To Do With Everyday Thinking. It's As If You Could Imagine Life Before There Were Words.