I Think I Have More In Common

When You're Working In Front Of An Audience, You Have Incentive To Excel.

One Of My Earliest Memories... I Knew Three Full Verses Of The Star Spangled Banner When I Was Seven Or Eight Years Old. And One Of The Nuns Discovered This Phenomenon And I Was Actually Sent Around From Classroom To Classroom To Do The Whole Thing.

Honesty Is The Cruelest Game Of All, Because Not Only Can You Hurt Someone - And Hurt Them To The Bone - You Can Feel Self-righteous About It At The Same Time.

There Is An Apprenticeship System In Jazz. You Teach The Young Ones. So Even If The Musicians Weren't Personally That Likable, They Felt An Obligation To Help The Younger Musicians.

If You Look At Music, You See Theme, Variation, You See Symmetry, Asymmetry, You See Structure, And These Are Related To Skills In The Real World.