Performing in a live theater is absolutely unbeatable. It is something I have done my entire life and have a gift, it seems, for sharing thoughts live.
I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.
Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.
Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.
The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time.
But anything that you hear about Japan is nothing like what you see when you actually go over there and see it, you know, in a real situation.
Theres so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.
Lately I feel films are more and more like music. Music deals with abstractions and, like film, it involves time. It has many different movements, it has much contrast. And through music you learn that, in order to get a particular beautiful feeling, you have to have started far back, arranging certain things in a certain way. You can't just cut to it.
I'm right, and everyone else is wrong.
You, yes, you, linger inside my heart The same you who stopped us before we could start.
While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.