Some of my biggest moments have been in jam sessions, but I don't want to talk about them. There were always other people involved.

Music should always be an adventure.

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

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

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

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else