Other highlights? When I started practicing Buddhism 21 years ago. Marrying the woman I married 26 years ago; my wife is quite a woman. The birth of my daughter. Joining Miles Davis' band. |
Over the years I've made decisions about things, especially music, and have been scoffed at and ridiculed and opposed, but I knew I had to do these things. |
People are afraid to spend money now because they don't know how long they're going to be working. |
People put you on a pedestal when you become famous, in their eyes, or if they really respect your work, they might put you on a pedestal, but I didn't get that as a kid. |
Pieces don't have to have the same tempo from beginning to end. |
Recently I've been listening to Mahler; it's beautiful stuff. I just saw a performance of Mahler's Eighth Symphony on television, and it was awesome. The music was so gorgeous I wasn't just crying tears, I was sobbing. |
Scary. |
See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules. |
Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different. |
So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did. |
So in other words, we were constantly challenged to grow, and that's what a master does. |
So my parents, particularly my mother, she noticed that I seemed to be interested, so on my seventh birthday my parents got me a piano. |
So the ideas is not to shut out jazz - but it is very inclusive, which is great - because jazz is also an inclusive music. |
So to answer your question more directly, I think it's very important, in order not to have a boring life, to continue to have a sense of exploration, and the courage to take risks, in order to utilize and expand your sense of creativity. |
So, he taught me how to play a simple riff and I somehow found a couple of other notes to play, then I learned how to watch his left hand and I learned where the notes were. |