The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.

After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.

I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me.

Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.