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

When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.

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.

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.

We should pray and seek for knowledge which would enable us to portray and project the things we love in music, in a way that might wholly or in some part, be appreciated as having been conceived and composed or performed and presented with dedication and in positive taste

The reason I play so many sounds, maybe it sounds angry, is because I'm trying so many things at one time, you see? I haven't sorted them out. I have a whole bag of things that I'm trying to work through and get the one essential.