As a coach, they would love to sit there and say, 'It's going to be five steps, you're going to hitch up into a perfect pocket, you're going to look at number one - no; you're going to go to number two - no.' It doesn't work that way.
“When I got finished, Gershwin paid me the ultimate compliment. He said, 'Boy, even I couldn't do that.'”
“All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to.”