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.

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.

Make the drummer sound good.

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

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

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