Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

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.

Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

Make the drummer sound good.