All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

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

My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there's no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.

The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.

Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into the best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

Change is inevitable in music - things change.