I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.
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.
Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.
Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.
Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.
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.