So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

All the things that are in the past are in the past.

There's no sustenance in the past.

So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary.

Don’t be ruled by your past. Don’t be crippled by the past. Let the past be the past and focus on what is ahead. Remember however that if you neglect the most essential lessons of the past, you shall walk into the future with one leg.

I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.