You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

I look at melody as rhythm.

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.