“If your memory serves you well
We’re going to meet again and wait
So I’m going to unpack all my things
And sit before it gets too late
No man alive will come to you
With another tale to tell
And you know that we shall meet again
If your memory serves you well”

“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.”

“No one I knew had ever seen them play. Information was scarce. So these records they’d pull out, they were simply artifacts. It was like seeing the heads of Easter Island or the Great Pyramids or something. You didn’t know what they were or how they’d gotten there.”

“I came into the world maladjusted and I still am.”

“The components of flavor are in some sense trivial; it’s the Gestalt of totality that’s interesting.”

“Aware Aware wherever you are No Fear
Trust your heart Don’t ride your Paranoia dear
Breathe together with an ordinary mind
Armed with Humor Feed & Help Enlighten Woe Mankind”

“I am waiting for the Great Divide to ‘be crossed
and I am anxiously waiting
for the secret of eternal life to be discovered
by an obscure general practitioner”

“Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.”

“Just-purchased turntable is the new kid in the house, but he’s introducing me to a lot of my old friends.”

“Group improvisation is a further challenge. Aside from the weighty technical problem of collective coherent thinking, there is the very human, even social need for sympathy from all members to bend for the common result. This most difficult problem, I think, is beautifully met and solved on this recording.”

“I’m sorry for that, for your sake. I don’t play accurately—any one can play accurately—but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.”