Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.

Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.