Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.
Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.
I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.
Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.
I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.
Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.