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

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.

You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.

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.

I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.

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.

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.