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

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

If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

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.

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

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.

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.