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

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.

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

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

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.