That's kind of my goal: to build a new row of meaningful tones.

I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.

You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.

A first love always occupies a special place.

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.

Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.