Jazz Stands For Freedom.

My Dad Was The Manager At The 45,000-acre Ranch, But He Owned His Own 1,200-acre Ranch, And I Owned Four Cattle That He Gave To Me When I Graduated From Grammar School, From The Eighth Grade. And Those Cows Multiplied, And He Kept Track Of Them For Years For Me. And That Was My Herd.

Do You Think Duke Ellington Didn't Listen To Debussy? Louis Armstrong Loved Opera, Did You Know That? Name Me A Jazz Pianist Who Wasn't Influenced By European Music!

The First Choral Music I Remember Hearing Was Handel's 'messiah' When The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Broadcast It Over The Radio.

When I Was 20, Shostakovich Was My Favorite Composer. I Still Find His Fifth Symphony Wonderful, With Its Outstanding Themes And Rhythms. That's The Piece That Made Me Want To Be A Classical Composer.

I Played A Lot Of Sports And It's The Plays In Basketball That Weren't Worked Out That Are The Ones That Are Just Fantastic That You Remember. We Don't Know The Power That's Within Our Own Bodies.