Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone

This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

Bellybuttons are our link with the past.

Dreams are like drama, they unfold the story on the stage.

Portrayals and perceptions are only one in the same to the actor himself.

I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

Every event in our lives occurs to teach us something about ourselves.

You shape your own destiny.

What people don’t understand is that it wasn’t about Dean or Eddie, it was about whether or not I was in the right place.

Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.