You know, when I'm playing, I think of myself in front of the Wailing Wall with a saxophone in my hands, and I'm davening, I'm really telling it to the Wall.

We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

You know, when I'm playing, I think of myself in front of the Wailing Wall with a saxophone in my hands, and I'm davening, I'm really telling it to the Wall.

I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.