I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

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.

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 saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it's still a melody.

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

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

I never have any trouble playing anything I can think of. The trouble is in thinking of what to play.