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

If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

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

I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.

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

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.