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I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.

I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.

I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

I played the sax at school. I was in marching band.

I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.