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

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.

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

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

Hearing myself so much all the time, I don't think I sound that special all the time because it's me.

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