New York is still where I live most of the time.

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins

I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing