You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be...I never tried to imitate anybody, but when you love somebody's music, you're influenced...I really don't know how I developed my sound, but it comes from a combination of my musical conception and no doubt the basic shape of the oral cavity.

I learn something new every day - to edit, to take out all the extraneous matter and stress form, logic, and content. I try to play beautiful music.

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.