Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.
Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.
I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.
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.
Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.
I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.