Somehow I think a person gets more from music than he can get from any other artistic source. Constant exposure to music makes a person grow and mature. There are all kinds of music in his life; he finds that if he keeps conditioning himself or exposing himself to music, after a few years he's looking for another music. He is looking for another music because he needs music that reaches deeper and says more to him. The most doing, creative, achieving people I know are people that expose themselves to music all the time. They get up in the morning and have the radio on before they even clean their teeth, or fix their coffee, before they get in a car and go to the office. I think Americans are quite lucky, because we have more music thrown at us than any other people in the world.

Today the jazz musicians are back trying to create music with substance in it, something that will communicate to the people. It is getting back to a happy sound again. It is more complicated than it was before, but I think just as jazz caused a revolution in traditional musc, rock 'n roll has caused a revolution in jazz music. I don't know how fast things are going to be happening in the future, but I think we are now sitting in a rocket and we are moving. (p. 99-100)