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.

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

I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

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.

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.