I learn something new every day.

There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. they are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence.

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

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

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

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

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