Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.
I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.
Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.
I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.
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.
Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.