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.

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

If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

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

If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.