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

I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

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.

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.

Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.