When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.

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

A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.

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.