I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

Change is inevitable in music - things change.

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.

There are so many things to be considered in making music. The whole question of life itself... I know that I want to produce beautiful music, music that does things to people that they need.

I want to be the force which is truly for good.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad.

Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.