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

Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

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.

Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.

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