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

I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.

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

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.

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

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

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.