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

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

I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

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.

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.

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.