There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.

I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn.

I'll know when I find the ultimate sound.

I guess I'm fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize 'I guess', because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have.

There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.