The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

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.

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

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.

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.

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

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