The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.
When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
What's interesting about a person without problems?
I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.
Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
[On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi. . . had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. . . . Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.
Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated. . . Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.
I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled into a ball and I just kept sobbing. It was embarrassing. I was loud, and I just kept wiping tears away so I could see the page.
In the West, the spirit is separate from the body. In the East these are things that are very real and concrete.