You Go Through Phases. You Have To

As A Child, You Respond Physically, Tactically. You're Delighted By Sound, You're Delighted By Recognizing Something. It's Like Hide And Seek. Is It There? Is It Not There? Is It This Note? Is It Not This Note? It's One Fantastic Game.

Each Day I Move Toward That Which I Do Not Understand. The Result Is A Continuous Accidental Learning Which Constantly Shapes My Life.

Jazz Has Been Such A Force In Music, That Any Musician, Including Classical Composers, Have Been Influenced, And Obviously Performers, Also.

I Really Would Like To Be Involved In Things And To Understand Things, And In Some Ways You've Got To Be Careful What You Wish For Because I Feel Very, Very Blessed To Have Such An Interesting Life And To Be Able To Have Little Snapshots Of Lives Of People From Many Different Parts Of The World.

A Senegalese Poet Said 'in The End We Will Conserve Only What We Love. We Love Only What We Understand, And We Will Understand Only What We Are Taught.' We Must Learn About Other Cultures In Order To Understand, In Order To Love, And In Order To Preserve Our Common World Heritage.