It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.

I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.

I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.

A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.