If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

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

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

I've done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?

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

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.