We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.
I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.
I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be.
I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.
You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.
Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.