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

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

I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

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

Bop is no love-child of jazz.

You've got to learn your instrument.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.