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

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

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

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.

Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.