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

I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.

I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.

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.

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

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.