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

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.

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.

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

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