Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with.

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

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.

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

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

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.

When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.