Paul Desmond

I was overlooked long before anyone knew who I was.

We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing.

I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase inverting it playing it in different keys and times and all. But its really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.