All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.

I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing . . . the emotional reaction is all that matters as long as there's some feeling of communication, it isn't necessary that it be understood.

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

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've always felt that even though a man was not a Christian, he still has to know the truth some way or another. Or if he was a Christian, he could know the truth. The truth itself doesn't have any name on it to me. And each man has to find this for himself, I think.

God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.