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.

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.

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.

My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life.

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