If you are complaining you can't be thinking about or creating what you do want.

When I heard Charlie Parker the first time on a record, it had seemed like an old, scratchy kind of record and I didn't get it.

All we can do is go about our work. But we can have a goal. We can have a dream.

Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.

Bob [Gordon] died young tragically.

You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player

I also met Charles McPherson around that time, end of high school. I was 17 and I had followed Phil around for a year and pestered him enough to finally give me saxophone lessons. So all of a sudden I've got Phil Woods and Charles McPherson around me.