“I play all kinds of music: I play Dixieland music, I play jazz music, and I spend a lot of time with theater doing musicals... . I conduct and direct and I play clarinet and saxophone.”

“I told my wife, you know, I think that is recorded music. She said, ‘No, that’s not recorded music,’ so I went down to look in the orchestra pit. I was absolutely stunned with the accuracy and the technical ability of the orchestra; just amazing, absolutely amazing.”