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.

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

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.

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.

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.

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.