There's no such thing as bop music, but there's such a thing as progress.

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play

I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."

If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying.

Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor