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

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

People think that I play effortlessly. I remember doing a record date with Bill Evans and afterwards he said to me, you make it sound so easy but when I get right up next to you you're working hard and making it sound easy!

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

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

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

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.