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I Like To Be On The Edge, On The Cutting Edge, Or Be Into The Unknown, Into The Territory Where I Have To Depend On Being In The Moment And Depending On My Instincts.

Creativity Shouldn't Be Following Radio; It Should Be The Other Way Around.

A Great Teacher Is One Who Realizes That He Himself Is Also A Student And Whose Goal Is Not Dictate The Answers, But To Stimulate His Students' Creativity Enough So That They Go Out And Find The Answers Themselves.

Don't Be Afraid To Expand Yourself, To Step Out Of Your Comfort Zone. That's Where The Joy And The Adventure Lie.

Clare Fischer Was A Major Influence On My Harmonic Concept. He And Bill Evans, And Ravel And Gil Evans, Finally. You Know, That's Where It Really Came From. Almost All Of The Harmony That I Play Can Be Traced To One Of Those Four People And Whoever Their Influences Were.