Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

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.

Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.

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.

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 heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.