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

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

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.

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

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

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