Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

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

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

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

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.

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