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

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

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.

Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

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