Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.
Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.
Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.
Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.
James Brown is the reason I play guitar.
I was different from most young conductors today.
All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.
It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.
I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.
If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time.
I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.
As long as God gives me the strength to still minister and create, I'll do it.
I love to work with young kids.
I can conduct better than I count.
The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.
I might just write a novel next. I don't know!
