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.

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

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

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

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

The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.

I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.